Ivan Shishkin was a man of many nicknames: "Czar of the Forest", "The Bear", "Titan of the Russian Forest", "Old Pine Tree", and "Lonely Oak" His formal art training began in 1852, enrolling in the Moscow School of Painting and subsequently the Imperial Academy of Arts. He graduated from the Imperial Academy with a gold medal. For some time, Shishkin lived and worked in Switzerland and Germany on scholarship from the St. Petersburg...