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00:00Ivan Aivazovsky
00:26The great artist Ivan Aivazovsky was most successful in painting the seascapes.
00:32In 1844 he was appointed as the main painter to the Russian Naval General Staff.
00:38In his lifetime Aivazovsky also opened an art gallery.
00:43Among his most famous paintings are the Ninth Wave and the Black Sea Masterpieces.
00:48However, Aivazovsky often departed from the sea themes.
00:52Caucasian and Ukrainian landscapes, Armenian history and the Crimean War
00:57are among the other subjects that appear in his paintings.
01:01Ivan Aivazovsky's legacy encompasses about 6,000 works.
01:06Aivazovsky also devoted himself to social activities,
01:10particularly to the development of his native city Feodosia.
01:13There he built an antiquity museum, founded an art gallery
01:17and contributed to the laying of the railway track in Jankoy.
01:22Mount Vesuvius is a volcano located in the south of Italy, about 15 kilometers from Naples.
01:29Its height constitutes 1,281 meters.
01:34The crater of the huge volcano is 750 meters in diameter.
01:39Vesuvius is one of the three active volcanoes in Italy
01:42and the only active volcano in mainland Europe.
01:46This is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.
01:49Nowadays, using modern geophysical studies,
01:53several magma chambers were found under Vesuvius.
01:56One of them is located relatively close to the surface,
02:00at a depth of about 3 kilometers,
02:03while the second, a deeper one,
02:05lies at a depth of about 10-15 kilometers.
02:09Naples Beach, view of Vesuvius,
02:11is housed in the Museum of Ukrainian Art in Paris.
02:14In this painting by Ivan Ivozovsky,
02:18the last major naval engagement of the Age of Sail can be seen.
02:23In November 1853, a Russian squadron,
02:27commanded by Vice Admiral Pavel Nahimov,
02:30was on patrol off the northern coast of Anatolia.
02:33Russian ships approached the Bay of Sinop to check
02:37if the rumors of the Turks, gathering a landing force there, were true.
02:41A squadron of seven Turkish frigates and five smaller ships
02:45was anchored in the bay, protected by six coastal batteries.
02:50Nahimov's force blockaded the port
02:53and waited for reinforcements to come.
02:56Soon, more than 3,000 ships of the line and two frigates
02:59commanded by Admiral Novosilsky joined Nahimov.
03:03Fearing that the Anglo-French fleet might reinforce the Turks,
03:07the Russians decided to attack.
03:09The painting is located in the Naval School in St. Petersburg, Russia.
03:16This early battle piece by Ivozovsky is alive with the spirit of Romanticism.
03:22It was created while the painter was undergoing training
03:25at the Imperial Academy of Arts.
03:28Later, Admiral Lazarev invited Ivan Ivozovsky to join an expedition,
03:33and the master took a leading part in the military operations on May 3, 1839.
03:39Caught up in the artillery fire, the soldiers, remaining at a point of relative safety,
03:46hauled the boats to the shore, where on April 12th the Golovinsky fort was founded,
03:52in the area of the modern city of Sochi.
03:55Although in this painting the depiction of the greenish muddy water and clouds hiding the sky
04:00is not too sophisticated, the artist pays exceptional detail to the ship riggings.
04:06The painting was presented to Raevsky.
04:08It has an inscription on the back.
04:11It belongs to the elder of the Raevsky family, without the right to sell.
04:15Indeed, the canvas was kept and handed down in the Raevsky family.
04:19At the moment, the painting is at the Samara Art Museum in Samara, Russia.
04:49Thank you very much.
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