Alexey Bogolyubov

Portrait of Bogolyubov (1876)
by Ilya Repin

Nadezhda P. Bogolyubova, Bogolyubov's wife
by Vasily Petrovich Vereshchagin

Bogolyubov was born in the Pomeranie village of Novgorod Gubernia. His father was retired colonel Pyotr Gavriilovich Bogolyubov. Bogolyubov's maternal grandfather was the philosopher and social critic Alexander Radishchev.[2]

In 1841, Bogolyubov graduated from military school, serving in the Imperial Russian Navy and travelling with the fleet to many countries. In 1849, he started to attend classes of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he studied under Maxim Vorobiev. The young painter was greatly influenced by Ivan Ayvazovsky (Aivazovsky). In 1853, he finished the Academy with a major Gold medal. He retired as a navy officer and was appointed an artist to the Navy headquarters.

From 1854 to 1860, he travelled around Europe and worked prolifically. In Rome, he was acquainted with Alexander Ivanov, who convinced Bogolyubov to focus more on drawing. In Düsseldorf, Bogolyubov took classes from the painter Andreas Achenbach. In Paris, he admired the artists of the Barbizon School. French painters Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny were good friends and collaborators with Bogolyubov. He also painted the frescoes in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

Bogolyubov returned to Russia in 1860. He exhibited his works in the Academy and received the title of professor. For some time, he taught in the Academy. In the 1860s, he traveled along the Volga. His paintings lost all traces of Romanticism, replacing that element with staunch realism of the natural. In 1871 he was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts.

From 1870, he became close to the Wanderers art movement, participated in all their exhibitions. He became a member of their board. Much older than most of the other members of the movement, he had reservations on their social ideas. In 1873, Bogolyubov left the Academy in solidarity with his fellow Itinerants. He even tried to create an alternative Russian Academy of Arts in Rome.[2]

After 1873, Bogolyubov lived primarily in Paris, because of his heart condition. His house was like a Russian colony: frequent visitors included Ivan Turgenev, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Vasily Polenov, Mark Antokolski, Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin.[2]

In 1885, Bogolyubov opened an art museum in Saratov, the Radischev Art Museum, named after his grandfather. It was opened to the general public seven years earlier than the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and fifteen years earlier than the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.[3] The naming of the museum after the "first Russian revolutionary", Alexander Radishchev, was a direct challenge to the authorities: Bogolyubov had to endure a legal battle to get permission.

Bogolyubov died on 3 February 1896 in Paris. He left all his money and capital (around 200 thousand Russian rubles (approximately US$6 million)) to the museum and its painting school.[2] The school was opened after Bogolyubov's death and named Bogolyubov's Painting School (Боголюбовское Рисовальное Училище).[2] Among painters who attended Bogolyubov's School were such important modernist painters as Victor Borisov-Musatov, Alexei Karev and Pavel Kuznetsov.

• Marine art & Seascapes
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  A review of the Baltic Fleet by Nicholas I at sea, from the deck of the ship, painting between 1850 and 1860.
  Central Naval Museum
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  Russian squadron on its way to America in 1863
  Central Naval Museum
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  Yachts Derzhava and Zabava when opening a sea channel (1885)
  Central Naval Museum
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  Sailing ships (1860)
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  The Wreck of the Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky
  Central Naval Museum
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  The Wreck of the Alexander Nevsky
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  The Wreck of the Livadia, painting after 1878
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  Shipwreck
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  Rough sea
  Warsaw National Museum
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  The battle of frigate Flora against Turkish steamships near Pitsunda on 11 November 1853 (1854 painting)
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  Turkish steamships attack 44 gun frigate Flora (1857)
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  Attack by the boat Shutka of a Turkish steamship on the Danube on 14 May 1877
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  Fight of the steamer Vesta with the Turkish battleship Fethi-Butland in the Black Sea, 11 July 1877
  Central Naval Museum
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  Capturing of Swedish 44-gun frigate Venus by Russian 22-gun cutter Merkuriy of June 1 [O.S. May 21] 1789.
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  The Armed Cutter Merkuriy Capturing the Swedish Frigate Venus
  Central Naval Museum
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  Battle of Athos in 1807
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  Battle of Sinop in 1853 (1860 painting)
  Central Naval Museum
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  Battle of Sinop
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  Battle of Gangut in 1714
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  Battle of Gangut
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  Battle of Ösel in 1719
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  Battle of Grengam in 1720
  The Russian Museum
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  Battle of Reval in 1790 (a free copy of Aivazovsky's painting[4])
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  Battle of Kronstadt in 1790
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  Siege of Petropavlovsk in 1854
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  Russian frigate Pallada, 1847
  Central Naval Museum
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  Passenger steamship Imperator Nikolay off the Black Sea coast. 1840–1850s
  Central Naval Museum
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  Imperial steam yacht Aleksandria of 1852
  Central Naval Museum
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  Shipping in Rough Waters
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  Moonlit Night at Sea, 1874
  The Russian Museum
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  In the Bay, 1876
  Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
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  Baltic Sea (1880s)
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  Coastal view
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  Coastal sceneru
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  The Rainbow
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Sunset by the sea
  Kherson Art Museum
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  The theme of two lovers meeting at sunset on the seashore near a pulwar.

• Russian Empire
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  Petersburg at sunset 1850
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  St. Petersburg, Sledging on the Neva, 1854 (full painting)
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Sledging on the Neva (Detail)
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  Bolshaya Neva. The painting in 1872.
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  Mouth of the Neva, 1872
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Summer Night on the Neva at the Seaside. 1875
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns, 1878
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  View of the Smolny Convent from Bolshaya Okhta, 1851
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  View of Smolny from Bolshaya Ohta, 1851
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  Smolny as seen from Bolshaya Okhta, 1870s
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  View to Saint Michael's Castle in Petersburg from the Lebyazhy Canal, 1880s
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  Opening of the Saint Petersburg Sea Canal in 1886
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  Fire in Kronstadt at Night, c. 1876
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  Saint Basil's Cathedral
  Private collection
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  View of Moscow from the house of G. I. Hludov, 1878.
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  Moscow. View of Golitsyn Hospital and Neskuchnoye in 1879.
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  Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 1880
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  Kremlin illumination in 1883
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  Evening in Moscow
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  View of Moscow from Babiy Gorodok, 1880s
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  The Moskva River near Zvenigorod
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Port of Reval, 1853.
  Art Museum of Estonia
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  Reval, 1853
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  View of Reval from Suhkrumäe, 1853
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  Offing (Baltics) (1854)
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Kizichesky Monastery, 1861
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  View of Kazan. 1861.
  The Russian Museum
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  Kazan in 1862
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  Hypatian Monastery near Kostroma, 1861
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  The city of Cheboksary on the Volga (1861)
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Baku. Street at noon (1861)
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  Baku Promenade and its Maiden Tower
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  Baku, 1861
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Easter procession in Yaroslavl, 1863
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  Competitions of troikas at the Simbirsk hippodrome (1863).
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  Nizhny Novgorod Fair (bell row). 1862
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  Nizhny Novgorod. Lower Bazaar (1878).
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  View of Nizhny Novgorod, 1878
  The Russian Museum
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  Ablyazovo homestead, 1860s
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  Ablyazovo, 1887
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Ablyazovo. Threshing, 1887
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  A View of Saratov, between 1887 and 1888
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Winter in Borisoglebsk before 1902
  Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
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  Kuzminki (estate of Prince Golitsyn), 1903
  Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
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  Kiev. The Palace Garden
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Finland
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  The Decembrists' exile to Finland, 1854
  Radishchev Art Museum

• Italy
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  Venice at night, 1850s
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  Venice
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  Venice, 1850
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  Palermo, 1850s
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  A View of Naples, 1851
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Italian coast, 1854
  Novosibirsk State Art Museum
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  Capri, 1856
  Private collection
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  Rome, 1857
  Private collection
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  The seashore (Sorrento), 1850s
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  Sorrento, 1850s
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Pisa. View of the Baptisterium and the Cathedral (1863)
  The Russian Museum
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  A View of Alassio, 1880
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  The seaside in Savona, 1880
  The Russian Museum

• Ottoman Empire
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  Mosque in Constantinople (1850s)
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  View of Constantinople, 1856
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  Golden Horn (Istanbul) 1864
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Sinop, Ottoman Turkey, 1856

• Denmark
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  Yachts and Boats on the Water
  The Russian Museum
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  Fredensborg Palace of 1867
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  Copenhagen Harbor of 1868

• Belgium
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  Antwerp, 1854

• France
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  Storm in Menton, 1851
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Pine Forest near Menton, 1881
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Earthquake in Menton on Carnival night, 23 February 1887 (1887)
  The Russian Museum
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  Yport. Fisherman's dwellings. 1858
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  Fishing Vessel Entering Saint-Valery Harbor in Caux during a Storm c. 1859
  The Russian Museum
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  Honfleur. Sunset on the sea. 1870s
  The Russian Museum
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  Le Tréport, Normandy. The 2nd half of the 1870s
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Le Tréport (1883)
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Normandy, 1870.
  Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
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  Normandy town, 1879
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  Forest in Veules-les-Roses. Normandy. (1871)
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Veules-les-Roses, Normandy, French Republic, 1880
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  Embankment in Veules-les-Roses
  The Russian Museum
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  The Watermill in Veules-les-Roses
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Auvers-sur-Oise, 1881
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  The Oise River Valley. Mériel. 1880s
  The Russian Museum
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  Moonlight at Pornic
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  Pine Grove in Pornic, 1867
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Pornic. France. 1867
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Scenery outside Paris with woman and animals
  Finnish National Gallery
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  Scenery outside Paris
  Finnish National Gallery
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  Party in Paris between 1874 and 1875
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  In the neighbourhood of Paris. Écouen. 1880
  Tretyakov Gallery
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  Toulon, 1880
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Toulon, 1893
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  The Scene on the Beach, Brittany
  Private collection
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  A village street in Brittany
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  L'Isle-Adam, 1881
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Turckheim, 1884
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Saint-Valery
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Nogent-sur-Marne. After the Rain. 1886
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Port of Rouen, c. 1889
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  Le Havre, 1893
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Bois de Boulogne
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Montmorency
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Nice
  Radishchev Art Museum

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  Lake Geneva (France, Switzerland)
  Radishchev Art Museum

• Netherlands
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  A Fair in Amsterdam c. 1859
  The Russian Museum
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  Amsterdam, 1885
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  The Outskirts of The Hague, 1870 (The Netherlands)
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Katwijk in Holland (South Holland), 1870s
  Tretyakov Gallery

• Austria-Hungary
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  The Outskirts of Vienna (Austria-Hungary, 1873)
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Franzensbad; Bohemia (Czechia)
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  Franzensbad, 1873
  Radishchev Art Museum

• Monaco
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  Monte Carlo, Monaco
  Radishchev Art Museum

• Switzerland
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  On the Tamina River, 1865
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Bad Ragaz
  Radishchev Art Museum

• Germany
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  The Rhine in Bonn, Rhine Province
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  An alley in the park. Liechtenstein. 1889.

• Bulgaria
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  Valley in Bulgaria (1881)
  Radishchev Art Museum

• Unknown site
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  A Mountain Landscape, 1865
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  After the Rain (1865)
  Radishchev Art Museum
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  Autumn, 1879
  Radishchev Art Museum

• Portraiture
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  Afanasy Radishchev portrait of 1855
  Radishchev Art Museum

• Bogoliubov. by M. I. Andronnikova. Moscow. 1962

• Alexey Bogolyubov Notes of an Sailor-Artist Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)