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Today is the birthday of the beautiful Russian artist Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev.
      
      He was born in Astrakhan on February 23 (7 March) in 1878 in a family of teachers of the seminary. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1896-1903), where his mentor was Ilya Repin. Member of the World of Art "and" Union of Russian Artists "

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Repin has attracted the young artist to co-authorship in the film "The meeting of the State Council" (1901-1903, RM). Already in these years, manifested Kustodiev virtuoso talent as a portrait ( "Portrait of Ivan Bilibin, 1901).

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Later (in 1908) enthusiastically worked well in the genre of sculptural portraits. During the First Russian Revolution 1905-1907 acted as a cartoonist in the magazines "Bugbear" and "Hell-mail.

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B. Kustodiev left us a wonderful gallery of portraits of his contemporaries.

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Living person of his contemporaries look to us.
It is alive!