Alexander Alexeyevich Borisov

Alexander Alexeyevich Borisov was a Russian painter notable for his Arctic landscapes.

Alexander Borisov was born in the village of Gluboky Ruchey in the north of Russia, now located in the Krasnoborsky District of the Arkhangelsk Oblast. He was one of the four children in the peasant family of Alexey Egorovich Borisov and Matryona Nazarovna Borisova. He spent his adolescence in the Solovetsky Monastery in the White Sea where he studied icon painting. In 1886 he obtained a fellowship to continue his studies at the art school in SaintPetersburg. In 1888 he enrolled as a student into the Imperial Academy of Arts. Borisov studied there under the landscape painters Ivan Shishkin and Arkhip Kuindzhi and graduated in 1892. In the Academy, he decided to devote his career to painting Arctic landscapes. For the Russian Arctic, Borisov was the pioneer of the genre.

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