Rare portraits by Russian artists

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In the first photo there is such a sad article in the Moscow magazine "Zarya" № 17. May 4, 1914.
Beggrow - seascape artist. We live, apparently, a sort of black mark. In recent years, suicide take on the character of epidemic diseases and become something in the nature of mental contagion. Recently, quite unexpectedly for others left voluntarily in the life of a talented artist, seascapes Alexander Karlovich Beggrov. Bound for a long time with the sea, he fell in love with its beauty, but more tranquil beauty of grandeur, than spontaneous power surging waves. From his paintings emanate kindness and quiet havens of peace, azure vastness soothing waters, sultry golden sunlight, unsteady trembling over sleepy depths ...
However, the seekers of the heavenly soul of an artist not found peace within himself and he went to where there are no questions or answers, where stretches are a great calm.