Alexander Kiselyov

Alexander Alexandrovich Kiselyov, or Kiselev (; 6 June 1838 – 20 January 1911), was a Russian landscape painter.

Biography He was born to a military family at the Russian naval fortress Sveaborg and received his first schooling in the Arakcheev Cadet Corps. In 1852, he was transferred to the 2nd Saint Petersburg Cadet Corps, but resigned in 1858 before completing his training course and entered Saint Petersburg State University. The school was temporarily closed during a period of student unrest in 1861, so he transferred to the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1864, he was awarded the title of "Artist Third-Class". The following year, he married and moved to Kharkiv, where he worked for the Kharkiv Land Bank.

Later, as part of a team of artists, he helped to design the interior of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.

His home in Tuapse (which he built in 1902) is now a museum. A large outcropping on the Black Sea coast between Cape Kadosh and Agoi is named after him, due to its appearance in one of his paintings.

Selected paintings