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Longin Khristianovich Frikke (Russian: Лонгин Христианович Фрикке; 30 December 1820 – 9 September 1893) was a Russian landscape painter.
Born into the family of an inspector at the Imperial Academy of Arts, Frikke took up studies at the academy and won plaudits and awards for his early work. He attracted the attention of the noble Alexander von Benckendorff, and was invited to produce studies of his estate. On his graduation, Frikke's success allowed him to travel to Europe to further his studies, and he spent a number of years in Italy. Returning to Russia, he was appointed a full academician of the Imperial Academy, and produced further works and held two exhibitions at the academy. He moved to his wife's home region in 1860, and painted local subjects, exhibiting them in Saint Petersburg in 1882.
Over his life, Frikke's works were collected by members of the Imperial family, and several tsars. Paintings by Frikke are now in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, and the Lermontov House Museum in Moscow, the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, and in regional museums in Krasnodar, Mykolaiv, Saratov, and at the Tver Regional Art Gallery, the Belarusian National Arts Museum, and the Museum of Don Cossacks. He is commemorated with monuments in Novocherkassk, where the house he lived in has been preserved.
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