Aleksei Fedorov-Davydov

Aleksei Aleksandrovich Fedorov-Davydov (Russian: Алексей Александрович Фёдоров-Давыдов; 18 March 1900 – 6 July 1969) was a Soviet art scholar and historian.

[1] He called for museum displays to concentrate on 'processes' rather than 'things': The history of styles stretched into a single straight line of evolution... we know that this single line exists because every piece of the historical process is a complex intersection, a dialectical struggle between competing forces and heterogenous tendencies.

[1]From 1929 to 1934, Feorov-Davydov worked at the State Tretyakov Gallery as head of the department of new Russian art.

in 1933–1934, some concepts of the "vulgar sociological approach to art" were criticized, and in April 1934 Fedorov-Davydov was forced to stop his work at the Tretyakov Gallery.

From 4, Fedorov-Davydov continued teaching at Moscow State University, where from 1948 he became the head of the Department of the History of Russian Art.