Alexey Danilovich Kivshenko, a Russian artist, was closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement. He is known for his historical painting "The Military Council at Fili," which captured one of the key moments of the Patriotic War of 1812. He also created a series of battle paintings dedicated to the Russo-Turkish wars, as well as works on historical, everyday, and hunting themes.

Alexey Danilovich was born in 1851 in the Tula province. He studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists under the guidance of Ivan Kramskoy. From 1867, he was a free listener at the Imperial Academy of Arts, and from 1870 to 1877, he studied there as a pupil. During his studies at the Academy, he received medals multiple times. In 1876, he was awarded a gold medal for his work "Samson and Delilah," and in 1877, a large gold medal for "The Wedding at Cana." That same year, he received the title of class artist.

In 1880, Kivshenko went abroad as a pensioner of the Academy, where he spent several years in Düsseldorf, Munich, and Paris, creating paintings that earned him the title of academician upon his return to St. Petersburg in 1884. In the summer of 1884, he visited the Caucasus to gather materials for paintings commissioned by Emperor Alexander III, depicting episodes of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.

In 1883 and 1889, Kivshenko taught at the Central School of Technical Drawing of Stieglitz in St. Petersburg. In 1891, he accompanied the archaeological expedition of Nikodim Kondakov to Palestine and Syria, from where he brought back numerous sketches reflecting the nature and life of the peoples of the Middle East. Since 1893, he became a full member and head professor of the battle workshop at the Academy of Arts.

Alexey Danilovich Kivshenko passed away in 1895 and was buried at the Smolensk Orthodox Cemetery in St. Petersburg.