Academy Of Arts In The Light Of Lanterns. Vasilievsky Island. St. Petersburg. Royalty-Free Stock Photo

On the embankment of Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg, opposite the famous Egyptian sphinxes, you will see a three-story long building. This is the Academy of Arts, founded even under Elizabeth Petrovna and which has become the cradle of Russian fine art.Talented portrait painters F. Rokotov and O. Kiprensky, the founder of the Russian landscape school S. Shchedrin and the ideologist of a generation of realist artists I. Kramskoy, master of historical subjects V. Surikov and famous painters V. Tropinin, M. Vrubel and V. Serov studied here .Among the outstanding teachers of the Academy of Arts are V. Makovsky and I. Shishkin, A. Kuindzhi and I. Repin.