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Brulloff Karl Petrovitch
(1799—1852)

He was called by his contemporaries The Great Karl. His masterpiece The Last Day of Pompeii (1830-1833), an enormous composition painted in Italy in 1830-1833, was a real triumph. Italian critics compared Brulloff to the greatest artists of the past, such as Rubens, Rembrandt, and Van Dyke. At the age of 33 Brulloff gained European fame. Karl... More...

USSR, 1952, Vasily Zhukovsky

USSR, 1959, Ivan Krilov, «The Wolf on a kennel»

Russia, 2004, 250th Birth Anniversary of Shishkov