Singer, painter, teacher of portrait painting, college counselor.
Hlovachevsky's ancestors were of noble birth, founding the town of Korop in the late 15th century. He graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Biography.
He studied at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He had a good ear and a beautiful voice. Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia, and All Ukraine R. Zaborovsky appointed him a singer to the wings of the Epiphany Cathedral of the Kyiv Brotherhood Monastery. In December 1747, F. Kachenovskyi, the "charterer" of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, came to Kyiv to recruit singers and regents. In March 1748, he was taken to the court choir, where many Ukrainians sang. Among them were Cyril's friends Ivan Sobluchok (Sablukov) and Antin Losenko. When all three of them were "sleeping with their voices," Elizabeth Petrovna issued a decree in 1753 to transfer them to the portrait master Ivan Argunov. In 1759 they entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and became its professors. In 1761, Hlovachevskyi was already in the rank of 3rd class academician with a salary of 178 rubles per year. In August 1762, he was promoted to associate professor with a salary of 300 rubles per year. On July 7, 1765, he received a gold medal from Empress Catherine II along with a diploma for the title of academician.
In 1765, the Academic Council entrusted Hlovachevsky with the supervision of the library, treasury, and all movable property of the Academy of Arts. On September 4, 1766, he was appointed advisor to the Academy of Arts, "who both by his good behavior and talent in painting portraits and by his zealous service as treasurer and custodian of artistic things in the Academy earned himself the honor of being made a counselor of the Academy by the general meeting."
1767 he taught students a portrait painting class and supervised the construction of a new Academy building.
In 1767, he married the goddaughter of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, Feodosia Prokhorivna Hnevusheva.
1771-1773 - Inspector of the Academy of Arts and member of the Academic Council. For about 10 years he was engaged only in painting. From 1777 he served as a "drawing teacher" of the State Medical Board. In 1783 he was again appointed inspector of the Academy of Arts. He held this position until the end of his life.
In 1802, he was awarded the Order of St. Volodymyr of the IV degree, in 1807 he was promoted to the rank of collegiate counselor, and in 1811 he was awarded a full board. He lived all his life at the Academy of Arts, had a modest talent, but was a conscientious portrait painter and administrator. He died at the age of 88. He was buried at the Smolensk Cemetery in St. Petersburg.
