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Vasily Sadovnikov

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Vasily Sadovnikov
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Vasily Semyonovich Sadovnikov (Russian: Василий Семёнович Садовников; 28 December [O.S. 16 December] 1800 10 March [O.S. 26 February] 1879) was a Russian painter, and a leading Russian master of perspective painting.

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Watercolor of Palace Square, Saint Petersburg, (c.1847), now in the Hermitage Museum
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Watercolor of the arch at the General Staff Building, Saint Petersburg
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Kazan Cathedral House / Nevsky Prospect, 25. Lithograph 18301835
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Biography

Vasily Semenovich Sadovnikov was born in 1800 in Saint Petersburg.

Vasily's brother, Pyotr Sadovnikov, was the architect of the Stroganov and Golitsyn families. He started his professional training with Andrey Voronikhin, subsequently became a Member of Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts (1849).[1]

He died in 1879 in Saint Petersburg and was buried at Mitrofanyevskoe Cemetery (now abolished[2]).

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