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Founder of realistic professional painting in Karelia, disciple of Ilya E.Repin
Veniamin N.Popov was born on July 27, 1869 in the Perm province. In 1891 he entered the the Art School at the Petersburg Academy of Arts, and upon graduation worked on probation in Ilya Repin's studio.
Veniamin Popov's degree work Thrown Ashore (Sailing Boat) was purchased by the museum of Kazan Art School. His painting At Weaving, painted under Ilya Repin's direction was shown at exhibitions in Moscow in 1898, in Munich in 1901, and in St.Louis (France) in 1904, and gained international recognition.
In 1911 Veniamin Popov came to Karelia for the first time and since then his creativity is inextricably related to our land. (http://www.gov.karelia.ru/Different/History/popov_e.html)
...Many of Veniamin Popov's paintings were lost in the war. The rest are stored, basically, in the Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia and in the Karelian State Museum. Reproductions performed by photographers A .Ankudinov, V. Ivanov, and V. Kotov remained in the National Archives of the RK. undefined