1800, St Petersburg - 1857, Moscow

Painter, landscapist. Son of a German tutor at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Studied under Mikhail Ivanov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1810-21). Graduated with a second gold medal. Travelled across the Ukraine and Crimea. Academician for View of Gurzuf in the Crimea (1827). Visited Turkey, Greece and Germany (1827). Lived in Moscow. Taught perspective painting at the Kremlin Palace School and the Constantine Institute of Boundary Engineers. Professor of landscape painting at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Had many students.