📆187 years ago, #OTD in 1837, Ivan Kramskoi was born, a leading Russian painter and graphic artist, a master of genre, historic and portrait painting and an art critic.
🧑🎨He began to draw as a young child and at the age of 15 he became an apprentice to an icon painter. It was only in 1857, at the age of 20 that Kramskoy finally had the opportunity of obtaining a formal art education, when he enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St.Petersburg.
🖼Kramskoy was a prominent figure in a minor revolt by some of Russia's most talented art students against the conservatism of the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1863, which led to the formation of the Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions. Its members travelled around Russia holding art exhibitions of works completed en route.
🎨Having succeeded in different genres of painting, I.Kramskoi became famous primarily as a portraitist. He created a gallery of portraits of important Russian writers, scientists, artists and public figures like Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Shishkin, Pavel Tretyakov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Sergei Botkin and others.
One of his best-known works currently hanging in the Tretyakov Gallery is “Portrait of an Unknown Woman” (1883).
🧑🎨He began to draw as a young child and at the age of 15 he became an apprentice to an icon painter. It was only in 1857, at the age of 20 that Kramskoy finally had the opportunity of obtaining a formal art education, when he enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St.Petersburg.
🖼Kramskoy was a prominent figure in a minor revolt by some of Russia's most talented art students against the conservatism of the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1863, which led to the formation of the Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions. Its members travelled around Russia holding art exhibitions of works completed en route.
🎨Having succeeded in different genres of painting, I.Kramskoi became famous primarily as a portraitist. He created a gallery of portraits of important Russian writers, scientists, artists and public figures like Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Shishkin, Pavel Tretyakov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Sergei Botkin and others.
One of his best-known works currently hanging in the Tretyakov Gallery is “Portrait of an Unknown Woman” (1883).
📆#OTD Today marks 104 years since the birth of Ivan Kozhedub, a Soviet fighter ace and military commander, three times Hero of the Soviet Union.
✈️ He made his first steps in aviation having entered the aeronautic club in Shostka. In 1939 he made his first flight and later mastered his skills on Polikarpov U-2. In 1941 he was admitted to the Military Pilots’ Aviation School in Chuguev. He was one of the best students and graduated as an aviation instructor.
🎖Credited with over 60 solo victories by most historians, he is considered to be the highest scoring Soviet and Allied fighter pilot of WW2. Having served as a fighter pilot in Steppe Front, the 2nd Ukrainian and the 1st Belorussian fronts, he claimed his 61st and 62nd victories – his final claims of the War – over Berlin on 16 April 1945.
✈️ He made his first steps in aviation having entered the aeronautic club in Shostka. In 1939 he made his first flight and later mastered his skills on Polikarpov U-2. In 1941 he was admitted to the Military Pilots’ Aviation School in Chuguev. He was one of the best students and graduated as an aviation instructor.
🎖Credited with over 60 solo victories by most historians, he is considered to be the highest scoring Soviet and Allied fighter pilot of WW2. Having served as a fighter pilot in Steppe Front, the 2nd Ukrainian and the 1st Belorussian fronts, he claimed his 61st and 62nd victories – his final claims of the War – over Berlin on 16 April 1945.
📆Today marks 352 years since the birth of Peter I a.k.a. Peter the Great, one of Russia’s greatest statesmen, organizers and reformers, the last tsar and the 1st emperor of Russia.
👉At the beginning of Peter’s reign, Russia was territorially a huge power, but with no outlets to seas. During the Great Northern War (1700-1721) Peter I won access to the Baltic Sea from Sweden, which boosted Russian foreign trade.
🏙 In 1703, on the banks of the Neva River, where it flows into the Gulf of Finland, Peter began construction of the city of St.Petersburg and established it as the new capital of Russia in 1712.
✅ Peter I also led reforms in Russia purposed to eliminate the country’s backwardness and to replace anachronistic provisions with more modern ones. His reforms had a lasting impact on all the spheres of life in Russia – administration, industry, commerce, culture etc.
👉At the beginning of Peter’s reign, Russia was territorially a huge power, but with no outlets to seas. During the Great Northern War (1700-1721) Peter I won access to the Baltic Sea from Sweden, which boosted Russian foreign trade.
🏙 In 1703, on the banks of the Neva River, where it flows into the Gulf of Finland, Peter began construction of the city of St.Petersburg and established it as the new capital of Russia in 1712.
✅ Peter I also led reforms in Russia purposed to eliminate the country’s backwardness and to replace anachronistic provisions with more modern ones. His reforms had a lasting impact on all the spheres of life in Russia – administration, industry, commerce, culture etc.
📆209 years ago, #OTD in 1815, the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna was signed, which settled the issues resulting from Napoleonic wars. The settlement was the most-comprehensive treaty that Europe had ever seen.
✍️ Russia, Austria, Great Britain and Prussia, the four powers that were chiefly instrumental in the overthrow of Napoleon, had concluded a special alliance among themselves with the Treaty of Chaumont, in March 1814. It was stipulated that that all former belligerents should send plenipotentiaries to a congress in Vienna.
🇷🇺The Russian delegation at the Congress was led by emperor Alexander I himself who directed his diplomacy with the assistance of Chancellor K.Nesselrode and Envoy to Vienna A.Razumovsky.
✅ The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna comprised all the agreements in one great instrument with all the other powers subsequently acceding to it. Aside from settling territorial disputes, it formed the framework for European international politics for the next 100 years which became known as “the Concert of Europe.”
✍️ Russia, Austria, Great Britain and Prussia, the four powers that were chiefly instrumental in the overthrow of Napoleon, had concluded a special alliance among themselves with the Treaty of Chaumont, in March 1814. It was stipulated that that all former belligerents should send plenipotentiaries to a congress in Vienna.
🇷🇺The Russian delegation at the Congress was led by emperor Alexander I himself who directed his diplomacy with the assistance of Chancellor K.Nesselrode and Envoy to Vienna A.Razumovsky.
✅ The Final Act of the Congress of Vienna comprised all the agreements in one great instrument with all the other powers subsequently acceding to it. Aside from settling territorial disputes, it formed the framework for European international politics for the next 100 years which became known as “the Concert of Europe.”
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🇷🇺🇿🇦 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa Naledi Pandor hold a meeting on the sidelines of the #BRICS Ministerial
📍 Nizhny Novgorod, June 10
#RussiaSouthAfrica
📍 Nizhny Novgorod, June 10
#RussiaSouthAfrica