Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm Franz von Kotzebue or Alexander Yevstafiyevich Kotzebue (Russian: Александр Евстафиевич Коцебу, romanized: Aleksandr Yevstafiyevich Kotsebu; 9 June 1815 – 24 August 1889) was a German Romantic painter of historical scenes and battle scenes.

On August's death in 1819, Alexander was educated in the Cadet Corps in St Petersburg, leaving it in 1834 as a Gardeleutnant.

He then went to continue his studies in Paris in 1846 and to Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany in 1848, before finally settling in Munich.

There he became imperial professor of Russian and an honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

The most important of these are considered to be the Storming of Schlüsselburg, Battle of Poltawa, Storming of Narva, Crossing of the Devil's Bridge and Founding of St Petersburg (Maximilianeum, Munich).