Mikhail Alexandrovich Kuznetsov was born on October 19, 1904 in the village of Kruglino (Dmitrovsky region), not far from Moscow. In 1916 he entered the Stroganov Art College, and later the Higher Art-Technical Institute of Moscow (VHUTEMAS - VHUTEIN), where his teachers included Kazemir Malevich and Nadezhda Udaltsova. He graduated from the studio of Professor Ilya Mashkov in 1926. In the same year Mikhail Kuznetsov joined the famous Society of Moscow artists “Bytie” (Existence), which was founded by graduates of VHUTEMAS. Later he became a member of the Moscow Association of Artists and started to travel around the country making an enormous amount of etudes and sketches, working en plein air and painting his first major pieces. In his etudes one can see his favorite landscapes made on the Volga River, near the Ural mountains, at the Onega Lake, at the Caspian and Azov Seas and throughout Central Asia. Landscape became his main genre and most of his works show wonderful nature of different parts of Russia. Since the first years of work as an artist Mikhail Kuznetsov participated in many exhibitions, taught in the Turist Art School and founded a children’s art studio in the town of Yakhroma. In 1947, together with senior artists of the Moscow Region (Radimov, Shaposhnikov, Tyagnov, Logutenok) Kuznetsov organized the Moscow Region Department of the Artists’ Union of the USSR (MOSKH). Since then he was an active member of this organization and later became its chief. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kuznetsov died in 1989.