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September 19, 2025

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10 facts about the artist Nikolai Ge

Nikolai Ge was born near Voronezh, in the family of a landowner of French origin. His grandfather, Matvei Ge, fled to Russia from the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century. Nikolai's mother...

August 14, 2025

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10 facts about the artist Alexei Savrasov

Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov was born on May 24, 1830, in Moscow. His father, Kondraty Sovrasov, was a third-guild merchant and a seller of sewing notions. From an early age Alexei showed a talent fo...

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10 facts about the artist Boris Kustodiev

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev was born on February 23 (March 7), 1878, in Astrakhan. His father, Mikhail Lukich Kustodiev, was a collegiate secretary and a teacher at a theological seminary. The father...

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10 facts about the painter Martiros Saryan

Martiros Sergeyevich Saryan was born on February 28, 1880, in the Armenian town of New Nakhichevan (now a district of Rostov-on-Don). His ancestors came from the ancient Armenian capital of Ani. The f...

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10 facts about the painter, graphic artist and stage designer Lev Bakst

Lev Samoilovich Bakst was born on February 8, 1866 in Grodno. His full name at birth was Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg. Later the artist took the name Lev, or Leon. There is a version that the pseu...

February 13, 2025

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10 facts about the artist, philosopher and traveler Nikolai Roerich

Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich was born on October 9, 1874, in Saint Petersburg, into the family of a notary. There were four children in the Roerich family. The father singled out Nikolai from child...

January 15, 2025

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10 facts about the painter Arkhip Kuindzhi

Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi was born in 1842 in Mariupol into a family of Greek origin. In translation from Urum, the surname Kuindzhi means "master of golden deeds." The future artist's father was a sh...

December 17, 2024

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10 facts about the collector Pavel Tretyakov

Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov was born in 1832 into a family belonging to an old merchant clan from Malyy Yaroslavets. The future collector’s grandfather, merchant of the 3rd guild Zakhar Eliseevich, a...

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Exhibition 'Sanitary Train'

For the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, an exhibition was opened dedicated to the feat of military medics and railway workers who made up the legendary military-sanitary train No. 312. It was f...

Vologodskaya obl, g Cherepovets, ul Zavokzalʹnaya

Engels Local History Museum

On July 9, 1925 the museum was founded, to which various items of clothing, household goods, old manuscripts, and materials on ethnography and archaeology were collected. The initiator and first direc...

Saratovskaya obl., g. Engelʹs, ul. Maksima Gorʹkogo, d. 4

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