Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev (c. 1753 – November 23, 1824) was an early Russia

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n painter of landscape art

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After training in the Saint Petersburg

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 Imperial Academy of Arts

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, he spent three years in Venice

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 studying the works of famous French

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 and Italian

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 landscape painters.

Returning to Saint Petersburg to work, his popularity grew over time. In 1800, Emperor Paul of Russia commissioned a series of paintings of Moscow

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from him.