Fedor Solntsev

Fedor or Fyodor Grigoryevich Solntsev (; – ) He was the main author of the fundamental work , the main decorator of interiors of the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow. He discovered and restored mosaics and frescoes of Saint Sophia Cathedral and Cathedral of the Dormition of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev , and of Cathedral of Saint Demetrius in Vladimir. and became a pupil of Alexei Yegorov and Stepan Shchukin.

Fedor Solntsev's work was supported by the President of Imperial Academy of Arts Alexey Olenin and Emperor Nicholas I.

Olenin commissioned Solntsev to describe archaeological and historical artifacts of Russian state.

Solntsev died in St. Petersburg on 3 March 1892, aged 90; he's interred into the Volkovo Cemetery, south of the Literatorskie Mostki.