Mikhail Stepanovich Tkachenko (1860 - 1916)

Mikhail Stepanovich Tkachenko

Mikhail Stepanovich Tkachenko (Russian: Михаил Степанович Ткаченко) was a late 19th- and early 20th-century Russian artist of Ukrainian descent. He is known as a painter and graphic artist who lived most of his career in France.

Mikhail Tkachenko worked as a landscape painter, marinist, and painted scenes of naval battles. For some time he was the first painter of the Main Naval Staff of the Russian Empire. Most of his works are in state collections in France, some are kept in the Central Naval Museum in St. Petersburg.