List of Russian landscape painters

This is a list of landscape painters of the Russian Federation, Soviet Union, and Russian Empire, both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list also includes painters who were born in Russia but later emigrated, and those born elsewhere but immigrated to the country and/or worked there for a long time. Artists are arranged in chronological order within the alphabetical tables. The basis for inclusion in this List can serve as the recognition of the artistic community, confirmed by authoritative sources, as well as the presence of article about the artist in Wikipedia.

For the full list of Russian artists in Wikipedia, see Category:Russian artists.

Alphabetical list

A

Portrait Person
Ivan Aivazovsky
(1817–1900)
Russian Empire
(Armenian descent)
seascape and landscape painter, portraitist
(self-portrait, 1873)
Fyodor Alekseyev
(1753–1824)
Russian Empire
cityscape and landscape painter

B

Portrait Person
Vsevolod Bazhenov
(1908–1986)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
landscape and seascape painter
Zlata Bizova
(1927–2013)
Soviet Union
landscape and genre painter
Konstantin Bogaevsky
(1872–1943)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
symbolist landscape painter
Alexey Bogolyubov
(1824–1896)
Russian Empire
landscape and seascape painter
Aleksandr Borisov
(1866–1934)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
landscape painter
Veniamin Borisov
(1935–2014)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape and sityscape painter
Victor Borisov-Musatov
(1870–1905)
Russian Empire
symbolist painter
(self-portrait with sister, 1898)
Boris F. Borzin
(1923–1991)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape, genre, portrait and still life painter

C

Portrait Person
Grigory Chernetsov
(1802–1865)
Russian Empire
landscape, portrait, genre painter
Evgeny Chuprun
(1927–2005)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
seascape, landscape, and genre painter

D

Portrait Person
Nikolai Dubovskoy
(1859–1918)
Russian Empire
landscape painter

E

Portrait Person
Alexei Eriomin
(1918–1998)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape and genre painter

G

Portrait Person
Nikolai Galakhov
(born 1928)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape painter
Ivan Godlevsky
(1908–1998)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape painter
Vasily Golubev
(1925–1985)
Soviet Union
landscape painter

K

Portrait Person
Mikhail Kaneev
(1923–1983)
Soviet Union
cityscape and landscape painter
Yuri Khukhrov
(1932–2003)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
portrait, cityscape and landscape painter
Sergei Kolyada
(1907–1996)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
cityscape, still life, portrait and landscape painter
(self portrait, 1965)
Alexander Koroviakov
(1912–1993)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
cityscape, still life, and landscape painter
Konstantin Korovin
(1861–1932)
Russian Empire
France
impressionist painter
(portrait by Valentin Serov, 1891)
Mikhail Kozell
(1911–1993)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape painter
Simon Kozhin
(born 1979)
Russian Federation
Landscape, portrait, stilllife, genre painter
Marina Kozlovskaya
(1925–2019)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
portrait and landscape painter
Arkhip Kuindzhi
(1842–1910)
Russian Empire
(Greek descent)
landscape painter
(portrait by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1869)

L

Portrait Person
Lev Lagorio
(1828–1905)
Russian Empire
landscape and seascape painter
Isaac Levitan
(1860–1900)
Russian Empire
(Jewish descent)
landscape painter
(self-portrait, 1880)
Piotr Litvinsky
(1927–2009)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape and history painter

M

Portrait Person
Dmitry Maevsky
(1917–1992)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape painter
Fyodor Matveyev
(1758–1826)
Russian Empire
classicist landscape painter
Nikolai Mukho
(1913–1986)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
landscape and genre painter

N

Portrait Person
Mikhail Nesterov
(1862–1942)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
religious symbolist painter, portraitist
(portrait by Viktor Vasnetsov)
Alexander Naumov
(1935–2010)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
genre and landscape painter
Samuil Nevelshtein
(1903–1983)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
landscape and portrait painter
Anatoli Nenartovich
(1915–1988)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
landscape and cityscape painter

O

Portrait Person
Vladimir Ovchinnikov
(1911–1978)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
landscape painter
Sergei Osipov
(1915–1985)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
landscape and still life painter

P

Portrait Person
Vasily Polenov
(1844–1927)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
landscape painter, realist
(portrait by Ilya Repin)
Evgeny Pozdniakov
(1923–1991)
Soviet Union
landscape painter

R

Portrait Person
Nicholas Roerich
(1874–1947)
Russian Empire
landscape painter
(portrait by Svetoslav Roerich, 1944)
Arkady Rylov
(1870–1939)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
landscape painter
(Self portrait, 1939)

S

Portrait Person
Gleb Savinov
(1915–2000)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape, cityscape, and genre painter
Alexei Savrasov
(1830–1897)
Russian Empire
lyrical landscape painter
(portrait by Iosif Volkov)
Alexander Semionov
(1922–1984)
Soviet Union
cityscape and landscape painter
Arseny Semionov
(1911–1992)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape, genre, and still life painter
Sylvester Shchedrin
(1791–1830)
Russian Empire
neoclassical landscape painter
(self-portrait, 1817)
Ivan Shishkin
(1832–1898)
Russian Empire
landscape painter
(portrait by Ivan Kramskoi, 1880)
Grigory Soroka
(1823–1864)
Russian Empire
landscape painter, portraitist
(self-portrait)
Sergey Svetoslavsky
(1857–1931)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
cityscape painter

T

Portrait Person
German Tatarinov
(1925–2006)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape painter
Nikolai Timkov
(1912–1993)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape painter
Victor Teterin
(1922–1991)
Soviet Union
landscape, genre, and still life painter
Leonid Tkachenko
(born 1927)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape, genre, and still life painter
Vitaly Tulenev
(1937–1998)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape and genre painter

V

Portrait Person
Anatoli Vasiliev
(1917–1994)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
landscape and genre painter
Fyodor Vasilyev
(1850–1873)
Russian Empire
lyrical landscape painter
(self-portrait, 1873)
Apollinary Vasnetsov
(1856–1933)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
history painter, stage designer
(portrait by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1890)
Viktor Vasnetsov
(1848–1926)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
mythology and history painter, Russian Revival style artist
(self-portrait, 1868)
Maxim Vorobiev
(1787–1855)
Russian Empire
landscape painter

See also

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