Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
family. His father taught him to play the
violin and speak Polish and Ukrainian
fluently. His talent as an artist earned
him sponsorship and entry to the
Simferopol gymnasium №1 and later
the St.Petersburg Academy of Arts,
which he graduated with a gold medal.
At 31, Aivazovsky married Julia Graves,
an English governess in St. Petersburg.
They had four daughters. The marriage
was dissolved, and at the age of 65,
Aivazovsky, married Anna Boornazian,
a young Armenian widow from
Theodosia.
In 1895, he painted a number of works
on the subject such as "The Expulsion
of the Turkish Ship," and "The Armenian
Massacres at Trevizond."
He spent his last years in Feodosia
where he supplied the town with water
from his own estate, opened an art
school, began the first archaeological
excavations in the region and built a
historical museum. Aivasovsky died in
Feodosiya in 1900.
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