Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Valery Ivanovich Jacobi was a Russian painter and an older brother of Pavel Jacobi (1842-1913), a notable revolutionary and ethnographer. Valery Jacobi was born to a family of an estate owner and started his education in the Kazan University, but broke his study to enlist in Russian Army (Siberian Volunteer Corps) during the Crimean War. In 1856 after retirement from the Army he decided to abandon his University study and pursue the artistic career instead.

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