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Vasily Maximovich Maximov was born on January 17, 1844. Basil lost his parents early.
Mastery of the artist was trained in the icon painting workshop, where he was sent to the pupils. In 1863, Maximov entered the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. In 1865 Maksimov wrote the picture "A sick child".In 1867, at the exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts, the artist presents his painting "Grandmother's Tales". In recent years, Maximov had to endure constant deprivation. His paintings were practically not sold. The artist died on November 18, 1911 in St. Petersburg.

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was born on 19 July 1817, into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky studied in Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. During his 60-year career, Aivazovsky produced around 6,000 paintings. And the vast majority of Aivazovsky's works depict the sea. He rarely drew dry-landscapes and created only a handful of portraits. The Ninth Wave (1850) is considered Aivazovsky's most famous work. Everyone can see his drawings at the Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. Aivazovsky's later work contained dramatic scenes and was usually done on a larger scale. Aivazovsky died on 19 April 1900 in Feodosia. In accordance with his wishes, he was buried at the courtyard of St. Sargis Armenian Church. A quote from Movses Khorenatsi's History of Armenia in Classical Armenian is engraved on his tombstone: "Born as a mortal, left the immortal memory of himself".