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In the second half of the 18th century
there also appeared the first Russian landscape painters; landscape painting
had been the weakest point in Russian art. Paintings of the Russian
country-side, towns, squares and palaces had existed before, but were all
painted by foreigners, and some of them date from the time of Tsar Alexei
Mikhailovich. His son Peter the Great as we have seen had different tastes.
When the Academy of Art was founded, landscape painting was taught as a
separate subject. For years Italian scenery and the Italian school and style
served as models to a generation of Russian landscape painters, to such an
extent that some of them made Russian landscapes look Italian.
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