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Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov

Russian painter
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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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Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov (born June 22 [July 4, New Style], 1815, Moscow, Russia—died Nov. 14 [Nov. 26, New Style], 1852, St. Petersburg) was a Russian painter who is considered the father of Russian domestic genre painting. Russian genre painters of the school of realism of the second half of the 19th century perceived him as their forerunner. Fedotov’s painting career lasted only eight years (1844–52). An officer and regimental painter, he came to find that...

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