Ivan Aivazovsky The Ship in the Sea " 1888 . ( almost a million $ )
It is strange that the information deputy . Head . the department of painting the second half of the nineteenth - early twentieth century Tretyakov Gallery (if had) , he speaks only of some mythical Karzhavin ,
and there is no mention of this painting Ivan Aivazovsky , no student Aivazovsky
notorious artist AO Kalmykov (1869 - 1929 ).
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