Klavdy Lebedev

Klavdy Vasilyevich Lebedev (Клавдий Васильевич Лебедев; October 28 1852 – September 21 1916) was a Russian painter. He was a member of the Peredvizhniki movement.

Biography
Lebedev came from a peasant family, studied at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Vasily Perov and Evgraf Sorokin. From 1890 he taught there.

In 1881 he was awarded a large silver medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the title of a class artist. Member of The Wanderers group (1891).

The title of academician of painting of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1897). The title of full member of the Academy of Arts (1906).

Consisted full-time professor of the Academy of Arts (1894–1898).