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Russian landscape painter Alexei Savrasov was born in Moscow in
1830. He specialized in landscapes while enrolled at the Moscow
School of Painting and Sculpture from 1838-1850, and is credited with
being the originator of the lyrical landscape style of painting in
Russia. Lyrical landscape painting “represented a turning back to
nature, giving commonplace subjects...a sense of poetry, “ in contrast
to the tired Romanticism of the academic painting that flooded Russia
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