Ilya Nikolaevich Zankovsky, Russian, 1832 to 1919, oil on canvas laid on cardboard painting depicting a Caravan at Mount Ararat. Signed in Cyrillic lower left. Housed in a wooden frame, additionally signed on the back side. Ilya Nikolaevich Zankovsky was a Russian landscape painter. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts from 1862 to 1863. From 1888, he exhibited at exhibitions of the Caucasian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, the Society for Mutual Assistance of Caucasian Artists. He taught at the School of Drawing and Painting at the Caucasian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Tiflis. Views of the Caucasus predominate among Zankovskys works. The works are kept in the State Museum of Fine Arts, the Odessa Art Museum and many other museums and private collections. Russian Art Collectibles, Russian Landscape Art.