Kotzebue Alexander Evstafievich

(1815 - 1889), son of the dramatist August Kotzebue. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in A. Sauerweid. Long lived in Munich, . performing ordered him to Emperor Nicholas to the Winter Palace scenes from the history of the Seven Years War and Suvorov's campaigns in Switzerland and Upper Italy: "The Siege of Narva", . "Capture of the fortress Noteburg", . "Battle of Gross-Ebersdorf", . "Tsorndorfskaya battle", . "Battle of Tsyulihau", . "Battle of Kyunersdorfe", . "Russian in Berlin", . "The capture of Kolberg", . "Russian in the" Battle of demands ", etc.,
. Not for long, returning to Russia, received the title of academician. Died in Munich. On a year-long exhibition of the Siberian Academy of Arts. 1857. they were provided a picture: "The transition of Russian troops through the Devil's Bridge in 1799," "Battle of Novi Sad" and "Battle of Muttenskoy Valley". Once his work is the exhibitions Academy has twice, in 1870 and 1871. The most important works of Kotzebue located in the Winter Palace.