Alexander Spiridonov
(1842-1906)

He was born in 1842, grew up in Riga grammar school, art education at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, was awarded the title of class artist I degree (1869), Academician (in 1874, for a portrait of the then Minister of War DA Milutin) and honorary member of the Academy of (1884).
was one of the founders of the "Society of Russian akvareliastov." Of his works we mention: the album of portraits of 30 representatives of Central Asian nations that were in Moscow during the coronation of Emperor Alexander III (1884 purchased the Sovereign Emperor), 45 portraits of the Military Order of Knights of the sign were present at the opening in St. Petersburg. monument of glory in 1886 (too), portraits of members of the embassies of the Emir of Bukhara, who were in St. Petersburg. in 1886 and in 1889 (again) album of sketches and drawings made ​​during a trip to the East, etc.