Aivazovsky. Skorobogacheva E.A.

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky - the world famous Marinist, a representative of the Golden Age of Russian Culture, one of the few artists of Russia, who has gained loud world fame. The author of about six thousand works, a participant in more than one hundred and twenty exhibitions, a gentleman of many Russian and foreign orders, he found time for extensive public, educational, charitable activities. Traveling through the countries of Western Europe, trips to Turkey and the Caucasus became important milestones of his creative path, but nevertheless he drew inspiration primarily in his native Feodosia. Creative ideas, inspiration, spiritual rest and the desire for new achievements gave him the Black Sea, to which he dedicated his talent. Two elements - marine and picturesque - were perceived by him inseparably, as an unchanging source of creativity, accompanied his life path, his disappointments and successes, storms, and calm, accompanying the desire of a true artist - to serve art and the fatherland.