Saveliy Moiseyevich Zeydenberg (; 28 April 1862 – 1942) was a Russian

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Biography

Saveliy Moiseyevich Zeydenberg was born on 28 April 1862 in

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, in the

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of the

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(present-day

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). He studied painting at the

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, graduating in 1891, by presenting the paintings "Joseph Sold by His Brothers" and "Moses Receiving the Tablets". Zeydenberg was active in the artistic circle founded in

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by Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi. He was awarded distinctions at various exhibition in Russia, among which a gold medal in 1890 for the painting "Saint Peter Healing a Lame Man". In the following years, he presented several paintings depicting the live of the Jewish population in Russian provincial towns. In 1891 Zeydenberg was appointed

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at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts.

Bibliography

Энциклопедия благотворительности Санкт-Петербурга - Общество Имени А. И. Куинджи

Зейденберг (Зайденберг) Савелий Моисеевич

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