Alexei Alexeiwicz Harlamoff (1849 – 1905) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg and won a gold medal and a travel scholarship in 1868. This enabled him to go to Paris, where he remained, working with the great portrait painter and teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts Léon Bonnat (1834-1922). Harlamoff's work was exhibited in the Russian section of the Décennale exhibition of art produced between 1889 and 1900 which was part of the World’s Fair held in Paris in 1900.