Background
Saveliy Moiseyevich Zeydenberg was born on April 28, 1862.
Saveliy Moiseyevich Zeydenberg was born on April 28, 1862.
He studied painting at the Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, graduating in 1891, by presenting the paintings "Joseph Sold by His Brothers" and "Moses Receiving the Tablets".
Zeydenberg was active in the artistic circle founded in Saint St. Petersburg by Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi. In the following years, he presented several paintings depicting the live of the Jewish population in Russian provincial towns. În 1891 Zeydenberg was appointed professor of art history at the Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.