Aleksandr Drevin

Aleksandr Davydovich Drevin (Latvian: Aleksandrs Rūdolfs Drēviņš, Russian: Александр Давыдович Древин, 3 July 1889 – 26 February 1938) was a Latvian painter. Drevin was born in Cēsis, Latvia. He attended art school in Riga under Vilhelms Purvītis and first came to Moscow in 1914. He studied under Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Since 1917 he worked in the Fine Arts Department of th...