Alexey Komarov

Alexey Komarov studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are illustration, poster, graphics and art of. Distinctions recorded are People's Painter of the RSFSR and Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Komarov was an illegitimate son of a landowner P.F. Rosetti and housekeeper D.K. Inshakova who was brought up by his aunts. He grew up in his father's estate in Skorodnoye, Tula. After studies at the local school he went to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (MUZhVZ, 1897–1901) and studied under A. S. Stepanov, V. N. Baksheev, and N. A. Kasatkin. He travelled around Sweden and Norway in 1906 and learned of the work of Bruno Liljefors. He lived at various times of his life in Tula, Kazan and Moscow and accompanied many scientific expeditions as an artist. He illustrated numerous books that included travel writings on N. M. Przhevalsky{ (1941), Birds in USSR (1951–1954) and Writings of naturalist (1964) by E. P. Spangenberg, Animals and birds of our country by V. N. Shnitnikov (1957), Mammals in USSR (1967–1972), and the Birds of Kazakhstan (1960–1970). Komarov died in Moscow in 1977. His works are held in various museum collections including the State Darwin Museum of Natural History (Moscow), Kursk Regional Art Gallery, and the Moscow Regional Museum of Local History (Istra).