Alexei Eremeevich Karev (1879, Shilovka – 1942, Leningrad) was a Russian painter and graphic artist. Karev studied icon-painting studio under in Saratov in 1896 and then until 1898 he attended the Alexei Bogolyubov School of Drawing there, before moving to Penza where he studied under Konstantin Savitsky at the . In 1901 he moved to Kiev where he studied for two years at the . In 1903 he then moved to St Petersburg and attended the . He was influenced by the French Symbolists and Post-Impressionists. He is noted for his cityscapes of Petrograd/Leningrad from the late 1910s to the 1930s.