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The first landscape paintings in Russia
date from the time of Peter the Great, when young students, encouraged by their
foreign teachers, painted some scenes of the newly built St. Petersburg. When
the Academy was established, the painting of Roman and Greek ruins and
monuments was part of the curriculum, chiefly for practice purposes, but the
rest of genuine landscape painting was neglected. At that time the Russian
public hardly knew anything about paintings with the exception of portraits and
iconography, and could not show an interest in landscapes.
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