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Paintings of Isaac Ilyich Levitan(Russian: Исаак Ильич Левитан, August 30, 1860 -- August 4 [O.S. July 22] 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape.
Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kybartai, Kaunas region, Lithuania, into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a Yeshiva and was self-educated. He taught German and French in Kaunas and later worked as a translator at a railway bridge construction for a French building company. At the beginning of 1870 the Levitan family moved to Moscow.

In September 1873, Isaac Levitan entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where his older brother Avel had already studied for two years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Levitan