Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen!
I would like to acquaint you with the work of my Master, the Belarusian artist Matyushonkom Shpol'skii. The man who will always remain for me the bright, talented, spiritual teacher. The man who opened a studio and teaches children to draw, develop in them a sense of beauty, spirituality, morality. The man, who for ten years in the studio was never picked up a penny from the parents of their students. They were brought up and trained a large number of...

The Art of Belarus of XIX - early XX century
After the third partition of Poland (1795), the Belarusian land became part of the Russian state. In 1840, as a result of the defeat of the liberation uprising in 1831, Belarus became officially known as "North-Western...