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Recently I went to the Shishkin Museum, where we were shown many paintings by the famous artist. In general, the museum is not bad: inside it is quite beautiful and harmonious, there is a comfortable wardrobe, several spacious rooms where Shishkin's paintings hang. However, if you go to the museum of famous paintings by a famous artist in order to see famous paintings by a famous artist, then unfortunately they will not be able to satisfy your desire here. Basically, the museum tells about the creative...

Gouache, the French word is water paint, splash, more dense and matte than watercolor. The composition includes finely ground pigments based on a water-glue mixture (gum arabic, wheat starch, dextrin and others) also, the paint contains impurities of whitewash (chalk). This ancient method of painting, representing one of the varieties of watercolor, was first developed in the works of the artist Paolo Pino. Nowadays it has become popular again and is used both on paper and on silk and other materials...

Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin was born on November 14, 1894, passed away on January 30, 1986. Soviet Arctic explorer. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1937, 1940). Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1938). Honorary member of the Geographical Society of the USSR (1938). Rear Admiral (1943). Honorary citizen of the Yaroslavl region. Papanin participated in the Civil War of 1920. On August 17, 1920, a detachment of 11 men under the command of A.V. Mokrousov landed from a boat near Kapsihor to fight in the rear of Wrangel, who became the head of the Crimean rebel army...

There are a lot of murals in my town. One of them is located in Bragino. I often see this painting while walking and it always touches my feelings. I saw a few murals but this one is my favourite. He is not like the others. While other paintings show us a beautiful nature or something like that, this one shows us a woman. The woman holds an ammunition in her hands. This mural must have been timed to coincide with Victory Day. Victory Day is a very significant...

Here you can see the "Seal of Ivan Karovi". It was discovered in 1950 during excavations on the territory of Zaryadye and dated by epigraphic signs to the XV century. After studying the history of the household of Prince I. Y. Patrikeev in Zaryadye and the pedigrees of the nobles of the XV – XVI century, it turned out that the owner of this seal was a representative of the Tver princely court Ivan Ivanovich Karova Yakhontov, the second son of I.K. Yakhont Levashov, a descendant of boyar Alexander Mikulich Levash, who served in Tver...