The Metropolitan Museum recognized the artists Repin and Aivazovsky as Ukrainians

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recognized Ilya Repin and Ivan Aivazovsky as Ukrainian, not Russian artists.

In the caption to the portrait of the writer Vsevolod Garshin (1884), which is kept in the gallery of this art museum, from now on it appears that this is the work of the Ukrainian Ilya Repin. Also at the work of seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky, the latter is listed as Ukrainian.

Changes on the website of the museum, known as “Met”, were noticed by art historian and journalist Oksana Semenik.

February 8 new The York Metropolitan Museum of Art also changed the nationality of the native of Mariupol, the artist Arkhip Kuindzhis “Russian” in his descriptions. on the Ukrainian, the name of the painting by the French impressionist Edgar Degas "Russian dancers" to "Dancers in Ukrainian Dress".

Ilya Repin – Ukrainian artist from a Cossack family nicknamed Ripa (Turnip) – Ivan Aivazovsky was born in 1844 in the city of Chuguev, Kharkov province, but later studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and painted his canvases in the Russian Empire.

Ivan Aivazovsky was born in the Crimean city of Feodosia in 1817 in the family of an Armenian shopkeeper, family who moved to the Crimea from Galicia
(Western Ukraine) in 1812, where his ancestors came from Western Armenia. He also studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts and was considered a Russian artist. Aivazovsky lived and worked in the Crimea, painted seascapes.

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