Biography and information
1807 - 1870
An auditor student at the Academy of fine arts. In 1840 – the title of class artist. From 1847 to 1848 he studied in Rome mosaic art. In 1852-1853, he was at Mosaic place in SPb. Academician since 1851
(Kondakov)
Historical painter, landscape painter and mosaic artist (1807 - 1870). Born in Kholm uyezd, Pskov province, was a serf of count Kushelev person who is subsequently released into the wild. He started his artistic education in Arzamas drawing school A. Stupina and continued at the Academy of fine Arts. In 1837 he traveled to the Caucasus region and in the Nizhny Tagil factories; from this last trip brought pictures of areas of Ural and Altai. In 1840 he received from the Academy the title of class artist. In 1842 he went to foreign lands. In Rome, beyond painting, he studied in 1847 - 1848 years of mosaic production. Caused, in the case of political anxiety in Italy, 1849 in Saint Petersburg, Raev for his work on various sorts of painting, was recognized (1851) academic. He served two years in St. Petersburg mosaic institution, and in 1854 again went abroad. In the last years of his life was engaged in painting in the Byzantine style, which, incidentally, painted the Cathedral in the house of Mr. Soldatenkov . From paintings by R. better known: ""View of Rome from Monte Mario"" (1845), ""the Vision of St. alypius, iconographer of Pechersk"" (1848) - both in the Russian Museum of Alexander III , ""the Roman kind of night"" (in the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow) and a few landscapes (in the Moscow public Museum).
