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Painters from the Russian Empire

  • Marc ChagallIn 1887, Moishe Shagal was born into a Jewish family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk. The town held about 66,000 people at that time.
  • Wassily KandinskyIn 1889, a twenty-three-year-old law student named Wassily Kandinsky joined an ethnographic research group traveling to the Vologda region north of Moscow.
  • Mikhail LermontovMikhail Yuryevich Lermontov entered the world on the 15th of October 1814 in Moscow. His paternal family traced its roots to a Scottish officer named Yuri…