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Zdrawneva
Zdrawneva (; ) was a manor house and estate in Belarus. It is located in the municipality of Ruba (Руба). The Ilya Yefimovich Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is today Ukraine. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century. His major works include '' Barge Haulers on the Volga'' (1873), '' Re ... museum at the Zdravniovo estate was set up in 1988. It is situated in the mansion that used to belong to the 19th-century Ukrainian and Russian artist, Ilya Repin (16 km from Vitebsk, 2 km from the Minsk — St Petersburg Highway). The father of the artist, Efim Repin, was buried in the nearby village of Sloboda. The museum contains numerous sketches, aquarelles, icons painted for Sloboda church, as well as photos, letters and books that used to belong to the artist. References Илья Репин. Картины и биография* ''Шышанаў В.'Невядомае Здраў ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of with a population of . The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, six regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city; it is administered separately as a city with special status. For most of the medieval period, the lands of modern-day Belarus was ruled by independent city-states such as the Principality of Polotsk. Around 1300 these lands came fully under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; this period lasted for 500 years until the Partitions of Poland, 1792-1795 partitions of Poland-Lithuania placed Belarus within the Belarusian history in the Russian Empire, Russian Empire for the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruba, Belarus
Ruba () is a town (status since 1970) in the Viciebsk Region of Belarus. It is subordinated to the '' vykankam'' (administration) of Čyhunačny District of Viciebsk. Nearby the museum of the Russian painter Ilya Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is today Ukraine. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russian Empire, Russia in the 19th century. His major works include ''Barge Haulers on the Volga' ... is located, based on Repin's estate Zdravnyovo (Здравнёво, also transliterated as Zdravnevo). It is also the birthplace of one of Alexander Lukashenko's most important allies, Filip Anadyrov. References {{coord, 55.3022222322, N, 30.3116666767, E, source:ruwiki_region:BY, format=dms, display=title[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Yefimovich Repin
Ilya Yefimovich Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is today Ukraine. He became one of the most renowned artists in Russia in the 19th century. His major works include '' Barge Haulers on the Volga'' (1873), '' Religious Procession in Kursk Province'' (1880–1883), '' Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan'' (1885); and '' Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks'' (1880–1891). He is also known for the revealing portraits he made of the leading Russian literary and artistic figures of his time, including Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Pavel Tretyakov, and especially Leo Tolstoy, with whom he had a long friendship. Repin was born in Chuguev, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). Repin was of the Zaporozhian Cossack descent on his paternal grandfather's side. His father had served in an Uhlan Regiment in the Russian army, and then sold horses. Repin began painting icons at age sixteen. He failed at his first effort to enter the Imperial Academy of Fine Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Belarus
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''villa'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
