Aivazovsky Picture Gallery

FATHER OF THE TOWN. Ivan Aivazovsky and Feodosia: A Lifelong Attachment

Dmitry Losev

Article: 
“GRANY” FOUNDATION PRESENTS
Magazine issue: 
#1 2017 (54)

The artistic accomplishments of Ivan Aivazovsky gained him renown throughout Russia, as well as further afield in Europe and America. Yet for all such international fame, his attachment to Feodosia, the small town in Crimea where he was born in 1817 and where he would spend the greater part of his life, never diminished: he was a model citizen, whose contributions to the development of Feodosia remain appreciable today.

FATHER OF THE TOWN. Ivan Aivazovsky and Feodosia: A Lifelong Attachment

The artistic accomplishments of Ivan Aivazovsky gained him renown throughout Russia, as well as further afield in Europe and America. Yet for all such international fame, his attachment to Feodosia, the small town in Crimea where he was born in 1817 and where he would spend the greater part of his life, never diminished: he was a model citizen, whose contributions to the development of Feodosia remain appreciable today.

 

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