Svetoslavsky Sergey was a Kyiv landscape painter.

He graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture where he was a pupil and follower of A. Savrasov. True to the precepts of his teacher, he asserted the poetic significance of ordinary motifs of nature.

For Svetoslavsky, who lived most of his life in Ukraine, native nature is both urban landscapes and marvelous pictures of the Dnieper, Ukrainian steppes, Moscow inns, and the life of inhabitants of small provincial towns and villages.

Svetoslavsky’s attention was also attracted by the nature of Central Asia. The silence of the Central Asian steppe and the measured life of nomads captured the artist on the canvas of the museum collection Middle Asia. Twilight in the Steppe.