Born in Odesa, he settled to the north of Kharkiv, painting en plein air in a detailed Impressionist style. He had a particular love of wild plants.
Orlovsky
He started his training in Kyiv, and after being a professor at the Imperial Academy, he returned to teach in Kyiv, and co-found its Art School in 1900.
Don Quixote, Netherlandish Proverbs, grain fields in Ukraine, a flock of sheep in a boat, the Golden Horn, pastels and kabkabs.
From the Pontic Steppe came many of our languages, domesticated horses, the wheel, and these landscape paintings from the 19th century.
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