Pyotr Drozhdin Explained

Pyotr Semyonovich Drozhdin (Russian: Пётр Семёнович Дрождин; 1745 – 1805) was a Russian painter. He studied in St. Petersburg under Alexei Antropov and Dmitri Levitsky, and was granted the title of Academician in 1785.

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• Book: Yamshchikov , S.V. . Русский портрет XVIII—XIX веков в музеях РСФСР (Russkii portret XVIII—XIX vekov v muzeiah RSFSR). Russian portrait of the 18th–19th centuries in the RSFSR museums. 1976 . Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo (Изобразительное искусство). ru. Moscow. 1–248.