Pavel Andreevich Fedotov was born in Moscow, in 1815, the son of a retired officer. Graduating from the Moscow Cadet School, he served for ten years in the Finland Regiment of the Imperial Guards in St. Petersburg. When still in the Army, Fedotov, like many of his fellow-officers, was concerned in art and occupied his leisure with playing the flute, taking part in amateur performances, and doing a lot of drawing and painting. Amateurism, thriving in the first half of the 19th century, largely determined the tastes of the Russian educated milieu and became a reserve for professional art.
c.1836. Watercolor, varnish on cardboard. 16.9 x 14.5 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1837. Watercolor on cardboard, 20 x 17.3 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1837. Watercolor, pen and Indian ink on paper mounted on paper, 18.4 x 23.5 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1838. Watercolor on paper. 31 x 44.4 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1840s. Watercolor mounted on cardboard, 9.5 x 13.5 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1846-47. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. 23 x 13.2 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1846-47. Oil on canvas, 15.5 x 11.5 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1846-47. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. 16.7 x 12.2 c. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1846-47. Oil on canvas, mounted on paper, 17.3 x 13.3 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1846-47. Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard, 17.7 x 13 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1846-47. Watercolor on cardboard, 26.7 x 21.7 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1846-47. Oil on canvas, 22.5 x 18.7 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1846. Lead pencil on paper, 21 x 18.5 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1846-47. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. 17.7 x 13.2 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1846-47. Oil on canvas, 23 x 18.5 cm. The Art Museum of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.
1846-47. Oil on cardboard, 21 x 17 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1846. Oil on canvas, 48.2 x 42.5 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1847. Oil on canvas, 37 x 45 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1840s. Watercolor on paper. 29.6 x 33.8 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1840s. Lead Pencil on paper. 29.2 x 20 cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Fedotov. by L. Sarabyanov. Russian Painters of the XIX century. Moscow. 1985.
Pavel Fedotov. by E. Kuznetsov. Leningrad. 1990.