Carl (Karl) Bogdanovich Wenig or Carl Gottlieb Wenig born in Revel (Tallinn) Estonia in 1830. His mother, Agata, was the aunt of the famous Peter Karl Fabergé. In 1860 he was awarded the title of "Academician" for his exceptional talent in historical and religious genres, and particularly for his painting "The Entombment'. Two years later, he was recognised as an Artist of Historical Painting. For many years he was also a Professor at the Imperial Academy of Arts. After 1871, he served as a member of the Academy's governing board. In addition to his canvases, he created several decorative murals and icons for the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and for the Lutheran Church in Revel (Tallinn). Karl Wening died in 1908 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia). Lot of his paintings were in the collection of the Imperial Academy of Art, and after 1917 the collection was splitted and removed by bolshevik's government to different museum collections of the former USSR. Best of Carl Wenig's heritage is in the National Art Museum of Nijniy Novgorod (Russia), the National Art Museum of Saratov (Russia), the National Art Museum of Kharkov (Ukraine), the National Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg (Russia). There are many works by Wenig in private collections all over the world.