Vladimir Orlovsky

Vladimir or Volodymyr Donatovich Orlovsky (Russian: Владимир Донатович Орловский; Ukrainian: Володимир Донатович Орловський, romanized: Volodymyr Donatovych Orlovskyi; 1842 – 1914) was a Russian realist painter of Ukrainian origin and an academic of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. Orlovsky painted for Moscow and St. Petersburg aristocracies, and his art was even bought by the Emperor of Russia himself, Alexander III. Orlovsky is considered one of the founders of Ukrainian Realist landscape painting.