Alexander Alexandrovich Sakharov (1856 - 1914)

Alexander Alexandrovich Sakharov

Alexander Alexandrovich Sakharov (Russian: Александр Александрович Сахаров) was a Russian artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known as a painter who became the first marinist in the Russian Far East.

Alexander Sakharov was a pupil of the famous marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. He created both military-historical paintings and landscapes. The most famous of his works is the painting "Defense of Blagoveshensk in 1900.