The Life and Artistic Journey of Alex Coquel Born in Tarkhany, Simbirsk Governorate, Russia, Alex Coquel was a Chuvash painter who achieved prominence in Russia and Ukraine. His early passion for art manifested in his youth through painting scenes of local wildlife, his village, and the local church on slate, as well as copying illustrations from school textbooks. After attending the Drawing School at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersb…