Palazzo Volkoff. Memoirs of the artist. Volkov-Muromtsev A.

Artist Alexander Nikolaevich Volkov-Muromtsev (St. Petersburg, 1844-Venice, 1928), who received the education of the agronomist and the professor’s department in Odessa, left his career as a scientist in his homeland and went to Italy, where he became famous as a magnificent watercolist, the author, in the first The queue, Venetian landscapes. In the wake of European success, he acquired in Venice on a large channel a palace, which received his name - Palazzo Volkoff, in which he lived for half a century. His aristocratic origin and talents allowed him to enter the Cosmopolitan Venetian bomond, he was close to Wagner and Liszt; How the guide accepted the members of the Romanov House. For many years he was connected by secret romantic relations with actress Eleanor Duz. His memoirs saw the light after death, translated into English, while the original manuscript was lost and the reader is now proposed a reverse translation.