Lev Lagorio
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Russia
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n painter, known for his paintings of seascapes
Ocean
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.
Lagorio was born in Feodosia, Crimea (now Ukraine
Ukraine
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) and later studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts
Imperial Academy of Arts
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in Saint Petersburg
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. His teachers were Maxim Vorobiev
Maxim Vorobiev
Maxim Nikiforovich Vorobiev was a Russian Romantic landscape painter.-Early life:Vorobiev was born into the family of a soldier, who on retirement became a guard in the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg...
and B. P. Villeval'de. While he lived in Feodosia, he was influenced by the painter Ivan Aivazovsky
Ivan Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky July 29, 1817 – May 5, 1900) was a Russian world-renowned painter of Armenian descent living and working in Crimea, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings...
. In 1845 Lagorio went on a sea voyage on the warship Groziashchy to study the arrangement of the ship.
Lagorio spent eight years in Italy
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. The paintings he created there brought him to the status of professor on his return home to Russia.
In his later years, he painted the coastal views of Finland
Finland
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and Norway
Norway
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. He also painted motives of the Russian-Turkish war.
Lagorio's works are open to the public in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia.