The picture of the traveler Fyodor Konyukhov

Fyodor Filippovich Konyukhov is a Soviet and Russian traveler, writer, artist, priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate.

He made five circumnavigations of the world alone, crossed the Atlantic 17 times, and once on a rowing boat. The first Russian to visit all Seven Peaks, alone at the South and North Poles (the so-called Explorers Grand Slam). The winner of the national award "Crystal Compass" and the Guinness World Records. The first person in the world to reach the five poles of our planet: the Geographical North (three times), the Geographical South, the Pole of relative inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean, Everest (pole of altitude), Cape Horn (pole of yachtsmen). He was the first in Russia to reach the North and South Poles on skis, the first to circumnavigate the world alone, the first to complete the Seven Peaks program, the first to cross the ocean on a rowing boat, the first to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon.

The painting was painted on board the nuclear icebreaker "50 years of Victory" as part of an expedition to the Arctic.