From the Pontic Steppe came many of our languages, domesticated horses, the wheel, and these landscape paintings from the 19th century.
Ukraine
Certainly the most prolific, and probably the most successful, marine artist of all time. His paintings were even admired by JMW Turner.
There are several Russian (and Ukrainian) painters who have been claimed to have had impressionist styles, usually for a period in the late nineteenth century. Here are two of the greatest of them.
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