Olga's Gallery

Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev was the first Russian painter who achieved notable success in the genre of town landscape. In 1766-1773 he studied landscape painting in the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Then he spent three years in Venice studying scene-painting. After his return to Russia he was compelled to work as a decorator in the Theater School, although his ambition was to paint landscapes. Only after he became popular copying the works of the famous Italian and French landscapists Canaletto, Bellotto, Robert and Vernet, was he allowed to gratify his desires. Read the rest of Alekseev's biography...

	View of the Palace Sea-front From the Fortress of St. Peter and Paul. 1791. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
	Town Square in Kherson. 1796-1797. Watercolor on paper. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
	View of the Mikhailovsky Castle in St. Petersburg. C. 1800. Watercolor on paper. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
	View of the Stock Exchange and the Admiralty from the Fortress of St. Peter and Paul . 1810. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
	View of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. 1811. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
	View of the English Embankmant from Visilievsky Island in St. Petersburg. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

	Palace in Tsaritsyno in the Vicinity of Moscow. 1800-1802. Watercolour and ink on paper. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	The Monastery of Trinity and St. Sergius. 1800-1802. Watercolour and ink on paper. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	View of Moscow Near the Iversky Gate of the Kremlin. 1800-1802. Watercolour on paper. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
	The Foundling Hospital in Moscow.1800-1802. Watercolour on paper. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.