Sergei Mikhailovich Volnukhin (1859 - 1921) was a Russian sculptor, best known for his instruction to a generation of Russian artists at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, teaching alongside Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy.
Volnukhin was born at 1859 in Moscow, in the family of a merchant. Studied at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture (MUZHVZ, 1873-1881 and 1883-1886), and also at the St. Petersburg Academy of arts (1882). He lived in Moscow.[1]
Among Volnukhin's students:[2]
Notable among his own work is the 1909 monument to Ivan Fyodorov in Moscow (with architect Ivan Mashkov.) Volnukhin's papers are held at the Tretyakov Gallery.