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Isaac Levitan,(1861-1900), painter.He was born in Kybartai, Lithuania, and while he was still a boy his family moved to Moscow where he studied at the Art School. In 1889 Levitan visited Paris where he was deeply influenced by the prevailing mood in art, including impressionism. He became the major interpreter of Russian landscape in art and has been called the father of Russian landscape painting. In 1896 he was appointed professor of landscape painting at the Art Academy in Moscow. Among his great admirers was the writer, Anton Chekhov. He is known to have produced over a thousand paintings and studies, most of them in the decade 1887-1897.