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Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) was a Russian painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape." Born in Augustów, he entered art school in Moscow at only 13. Among his teachers was Alexei Savrasov, who taught students to paint en plein air. Levitan's March (above) dates from 1895. From 1897 he headed the landscape studio at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. Levitan, suffering from heart disease, died in June 1900, aged only 39.
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Putin foe Navalny dies in Arctic prison

Longtime Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, 47, died on February 16, 2024, in a penal colony in in Kharp, in north-central Russia near Vorkuta. Navalny had been incarcerated since January 2021, and was serving sentences of more than 30 years for "extremism." In January 2024, Navalny denounced "freezing" conditions in his cell and mealtimes of only 10 minutes. The Russian prison service said the cause of his death was "being established."
Source: ... — The Associated Press, Feb. 16, 2024

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Thank you for pointing at Seiji Ozawa! I thanked him, and have the story of Helga Paris today, a photographer of houses and faces. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:05, 13 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The image, taken on a cemetery last year after the funeral of a distant but dear family member, commemorates today, with thanks for their achievements, four subjects mentioned on the Main page and Vami_IV, a friend here. Listen to music by Tchaikovsky (an article where one of the four is pictured), sung by today's subject (whose performance on stage I enjoyed two days ago). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:45, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thanks, Gerda. -- Sca (talk) 19:08, 20 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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