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Aleksey Kondratyevich Savrasov

Russian artist
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May 12 [May 24, New Style], 1830, Moscow, Russia
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Sept. 26 [Oct. 8], 1897, Moscow (aged 67)
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Aleksey Kondratyevich Savrasov (born May 12 [May 24, New Style], 1830, Moscow, Russia—died Sept. 26 [Oct. 8], 1897, Moscow) was a Russian artist who was the founder of Russian lyrical landscape painting and the painter of such popular Russian paintings as The Rooks Have Returned (1871). Savrasov studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture from 1844 to 1854. His early works, painted after his graduation, show Romantic tendencies. One of these paintings, View in the Neighbourhood of Oranienbaum (1854), earned him membership in the Russian Academy of Art. During the 1860s Savrasov visited various European countries, and ...(100 of 348 words)

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