(b Obolon’, nr Poltava, 22 July 1849; d Petrograd [now St Petersburg], 8 Jan 1921). Ukrainian sculptor and lawyer. He worked as a lawyer throughout his life but was also a talented sculptor, with a style based on folk art. Most of his works were executed in wax and then cast in bronze at the K. Werfel factory in St Petersburg. His early works show his attraction to ANIMALIER SCULPTURE, but they are known only from sketches. Pozen came to public attention with his works on social themes, such as the Tavern Keeper (bronze, 1881; Lviv, Mus. Ethnog., A. & Crafts Ukrain. Acad. Sci.), and with his début at the Wanderers’ tenth exhibition. His Migrants (1884; Kiev, Mus. Ukrain. A.; Moscow, Hist. Mus.) created an even greater stir. This sculptural group reminded his contemporaries of the situation in Russia after the land reforms of 1861, when many families were forced to move in search of land. Its realism placed Pozen alongside the painters Vasily Perov, Grigory Myasoyedov and Ivan Kramskoy.