Boris Alexandrovich Fogel () (18 January 1872 in

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– 1961 in

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) was a Russian and Soviet painter and art educator who lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of the Soviet Artists, and a professor of painting at the Repin Institute of Arts who played an important role in the formation of the

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.''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' St Petersburg, NP-Print, 2007. P.356-360, 362, 367, 368, 371—373, 389, 392.

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Boris Alexandrovich Fogel was born on 18 January 1872 in

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. His father, a career military colonel, had spent most of his life involved in campaigns for the conquest of the

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. His mother, née Olga Flovitskaya, was a close relative of the artist Konstantin Flavitsky. In 1880, after the death of his father, Boris moved with his mother to

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. While studying in high school, he engaged in drawing at the private studio of A. Zakharov. In 1891 Fogel moved to Moscow, where he joined the medical faculty at

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. Concomitantly he continued his studies in painting, additionally benefiting from the advice of known artists

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, and

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. In 1896 Fogel lived and studied in Paris. After returning to

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, Fogel joined the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under the tutelage of

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and P. O. Kovalevsky. In 1902 he graduated as an artist of painting, his graduate work named «An Evening». From 1934 until his death Fogel taught at the Repin Institute of Arts. He was a member of the

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