Fedor Alekseev
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev (c. 1753 – November
23, 1824) was an early Russian landscape painter.
After training in the St. Petersburg Academy of
Arts, he spent three years in Venice studying the works of famous
French and Italian landscape painters.
Returning to St. Petersburg to work, his popularity
grew over time. In 1800 Emperor Paul of Russia commissioned a series
of paintings of Moscow from him.
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