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Vitold Kaetanovich Bialynitsky-Birulya
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Vitold Kaetanovich Bialynitsky-Birulya – a Russian, Soviet and Belarusian landscape painter. He was born in the village of Krynki in the Mogilev Governorate into a tenant farmer's family. For some time he lived in Kyiv with his older brother. He was educated at the Kyiv Cadet Corps, then at N. I. Murashko's Kyiv Drawing School and at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In Moscow he met Isaac Levitan and studied in his studio. Under the influence of his teachers he became fascinated with landscape painting.
From 1897 Bialynitsky-Birulya actively participated in exhibitions of the Moscow Society of Art Lovers, the Moscow Association of Artists and international events. In 1904 he became a member of the Peredvizhniki (the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions), and four years later he became an academician of painting. In 1911 his painting "Hour of Silence" received awards at international exhibitions in Munich and Barcelona. In 1912 the artist acquired a plot of land near Tver and built the estate "Chaika" there, which became a meeting place and a center of creativity for many Russian artists. In 1936 Bialynitsky-Birulya visited sites associated with Pushkin and created a series of paintings inspired by those trips. The theme of the Great Patriotic War found expression in his works "The Red Army in the Forests of Karelia" and "On the Trail of the Fascist Barbarians".
In 1944 Bialynitsky-Birulya was awarded the title People's Artist of Belarus, and in 1947 People's Artist of Russia. In the same year he became a full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. The artist died at his estate "Chaika" on 18 June 1957 and was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Date of birth
12 February 1872
Date of death
18 June 1957
Occupation
Artist