Constantin Kousnetzoff

Constantin Kousnetzoff, or Konstantin Pavlovich Kuznetsov (Russian: Константин Павлович Кузнецов); (10 August 1863, Zhyolnino - 30 December 1936, Paris) was a Russian painter who spent most of his career in France; known primarily for his landscapes, cityscapes and Symbolist watercolors.

He was born to a wealthy merchant family who owned a trading business with headquarters in Astrakhan.

His interest in painting was inspired by the time he spent in the countryside,[2] and his first works were in imitation of Ivan Shishkin.

During this time, his style began to depart from Impressionism, with a darker palette and sharper contrasts.

In the 1930s, he turned to creating illustrations; notably for a special, numbered French-language edition of Viy by Nikolai Gogol.