Kamenev Lev

Among the landscape painters of the second half of the XIX century, Lev Kamenev remains until now an artist with little studied. Many of his works have not been revealed

In his landscapes there is some unearthly poetry of Russian forests, roads, hills covered with bushes, and villages illuminated by the evening sun. An amazing thing: considering the small corners

In his painting “Moonlit Night on the River” Kamenev LL depicts a large river, which is so wide that one might think that it is a sea. The painted landscape

Since the late 1860’s, the artist worked a lot under Moscow, in particular in the Savvinskaya Sloboda near Zvenigorod. These places are called by name not far from Switzerland near