Aivazovsky

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky is a world-famous marine painter, a representative of the "golden age" of domestic culture, and one of the few Russian artists who gained wide international fame. The author of about six thousand works, a participant in more than one hundred and twenty exhibitions, a knight of many Russian and foreign orders, he found time for extensive public, educational, and charitable activities. Travels to the countries of Western Europe, trips to Turkey, and the Caucasus became important milestones in his creative path, but he drew his inspiration above all from his native Feodosia. Creative ideas, inspiration, spiritual rest, and the pursuit of new achievements were gifted to him by the Black Sea, to which he dedicated his talent. Two elements - marine and artistic - were perceived by him inseparably, as an unchanging source of creativity, accompanying his life journey, his disappointments and successes, storms and calms, following the aspiration of a true artist - to serve Art and the Fatherland.