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Russian modern painters

  • 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.
  • Kazimir MalevichKazimir Severinovich Malevich was born on the 11th of February 1879 in Kiev, a city that now belongs to Ukraine. His parents were ethnic Poles who had fled…