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Aleksey Kondratyevich Savrasov

Russian artist
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Andrei D. Sarabianov
Art historian and art critic. Author of The Unknown Russian Avant-Garde and Ivan Kliun.
Andrei D. Sarabianov
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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,...

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