Konstantin Gorbatov was born in the town of Stavropol in the Samara province. He started learning painting in the beginning of 1890-s under the supervision of Burov F.E. in Samara. From 1896 to 1903, Gorbatov lived in Riga, studied at the polytechnic university and kept on studying painting at the workshop of Clark D. The artist moved to St. Petersburg in 1903 and entered the baron Stieglitz Central School for Technical Draftsmanship and then the Academy of Arts on the architectural faculty. A year on he switched on painting what he studied under N. Dubovskoy and A. Kiselev. Gorbatov submitted his paintings to the academic exhibitions, exhibitions of the Society of Russian Watercolorists, Moscow Society of the Art Amateurs, the Society for Circulating Art Exhibitions and the Society of the Independent Artists. In 1910, the artist was awarded the Second Prize at the Spring exhibition of the Imperial Academy of Arts for his work “The Fish market on the Pskov River”. In 1912, Gorbatov received a scholarship of the Academy of Arts and studied art in Rome and later he received an invitation from Maksim Gorky to live in Capri. The artist travelled a lot throughout Europe and in 1913, he was awarded an International Gold Medal of the Munich exhibition for his diploma work. In 1916, he received Kuindgi award. Gorbatov lived in Russia and worked in St. Petersburg as professor at the university. Artist’s works were in demand before 1922, the moment when the Revolution started. That year Gorbatov left Russia and settled on Capri in Italy. During four subsequent years the artist travelled throughout Europe and moved to Berlin where he came into a group of Russian painters-emigrants. Gorbatov’s works were a success before Hitler had came to power. The artist died in Berlin in four weeks after the war ended on May 24, 1945. Gorbatov bequeathed his works to the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg as well the artist’s paintings may be found in the Moscow Regional Museum of history and Arts in New Jerusalem.