Alexander Nikolaevitch (Alexander) Wolkoff-Mouromtzoff (Alexander Wolkoff) (Александр Николаевич Волков)
1844–1928
Russian botanist and painter. Masters degree, University of Dorpat, 1866. Studied in Würzburg and Heidelberg, 1871–5. Doctorate in botany; professor of plant physiology, Novorossia University, Odessa, 1875–9. Moved to Venice in 1880, after which he worked as a watercolourist, signing himself Roussoff.
Sources
ALK
Искусство и архитектура русского зарубежья (Art and architecture of Russians abroad), www.artrz.ru/menu/1804645950/1804782980.html (accessed 8 February 2018)
Wolkoff-Mouromtzoff 1928
Bibliography
ALK: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Edited by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1907–50.
Wolkoff-Mouromtzoff, Alexander. 1928. Memoirs of Alexander Wolkoff-Mouromtzoff (A. N. Roussoff). Translated by Annabel Grant Duff Jackson. London: J. Murray.
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