Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. Savrasov was born into the family of a merchant. He began to draw early and in 1838 he enrolled as a student of professor Rabus at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and immediately began to specialize in landscape painting.