Ivan Aivazovsky
Biography Born - Hovhannes Aivazian (baptized) 29 July 1817 Feodosia, Taurida, Russian Empire (present-day Crimea, Ukraine) Died - 2 May 1900 (aged 82) Feodosia, Russian Empire
Imperial Academy of Arts
Aivazovsky with his first wife, Julia, and their four daughters
Aivazovsky's painting of his second wife Anna Burnazian (1882)
Aivazovsky's gravestone in Feodosia
Aivazovsky the artist
Pushkin farewell to the sea Sea view by Moonlight
Ship «Empress Maria» in storm
Armenian themes
Posthumous honors Monuments in Ukraine, Armenia and Russia stand in Aivazovsky's memory. A statue of the artist can be found in front of the Feodosia Art Gallery, his former home. A statues of Aivazovsky and his brother Gabriel is located in Simferopol, Crimea's administrative center.