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«moonlit night on the Dnieper" wanted to buy Soldatenkov, but it turned out that she no longer belonged Arkhip Ivanovich, was sold more smelling of fresh paint, straight into the studio. One Sunday about its price asked a naval officer. "But why do you - shrugged Kuindzhi .-

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It still does not buy it dear. - "Still" - "Yes five thousand" - named Arkhip I. unbelievable in those days, almost fantastic amount. And suddenly he heard in response to "Good. I leave for themselves. " And only after the officer found an artist that he had visited the Grand Duke Constantine.
Repin laughed "tick off a loud, all crusts Kuindzhi, opponents could not refrain from imitation and vied with each other, with passion, tried to jump ahead with their fakes, passing them off as their own personal pictures." Could not resist a well-known landscape painter, as Lagorio. He recreated the "effect Kuindzhi" in the landscape "Night on the Neva. But instead of glory waited only that it began to point the finger.

Interestingly, for some of them laughed.

- Moonlight on the Neva 1898 Lev Lagorio
- Neva night 1878 Lev Lagorio