13:20 . 24/05
Ukraine will celebrate the 195th birthday anniversary of renowned artist Hovhannes Aivazovski on July 17 on a state level, tert.am informs.
According to Analitika.at.ua, some 297 MPs of the Ukrainian parliament (Rada) voted for the decision.
The ministerial cabinet has been assigned to set up an organizational committee for the preparation and conduction of events.
Within the framework of the event thematic exhibitions will be conducted in museums and libraries dedicated to the artists’ life and activity.
The state “Ukrpost” has been tasked to issue stamps dedicated to the anniversary.
Hovhannes Aivasovsky, originally Aivazian, world-renowned painter of Armenian descent living and working in Crimea was born in 1817 and is most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings. Aivazovsky is widely considered as one of the greatest seascape painters of all times. Aivazovsky was born in the town of Theodosia, Crimea to a poor Armenian family. His brother was the Armenian Archbishop Gabriel Aivazovsky. His family moved to the Crimea from Galicia (then in southern Poland, now in Ukraine) in 1812.
He spent his last years in Theodosia where he supplied the town with water from his own estate, opened an art school, began the first archaeological excavations in the region and built a historical museum. Due to his efforts a commercial port was established at Theodosia and linked to the railway network. Aivasovsky died in Theodosia in 1900.