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KEY DATES OF LIFE OF THE ARTIST
1867.1 March (17.02) - born with. Nikolaevka County Anan'evskij Kherson province (now the Odessa region).
1870 - Ghanaian family moved to Odessa.
1885-1889 1885-1889 - irregular Petersburg Academy of Arts.
1890 - participation in exhibitions TYURH.
1894 - Member of TYURH.
1900-1913 - lived in France every year come to Odessa, to participate in exhibitions TYURH.
1900-1904 - participated in the Paris Salons of the Society for French artists.
1901 - participated in the Spring exhibition of the Petersburg Academy of Arts.
1908 - participated in the Spring exhibition of the Petersburg Academy of Arts.
1910 - participated in the Salon of the Independents, Paris.
1913-1919 - located in Odessa to participate in the exhibition "Independent" in 1917
1917 - arrested in Odessa.
1919 - went to France.
1920-1933 - lives in Paris.
1922 - Takes Catholicism.
1925-1927 - studies at the theological faculty at Lyon.
1928 - was ordained a priest.
1929-1930 - deals with Russian refugees in France.
1934-1939 - lived in the monastery of Saint-Germain.
1940 August - Mours, serves in the parish Saogsellts (Courcelles)
1941 - located in the monastery Sostres.
1942 May - lives in Dora, in the temple of the Holy Virgin.
1942, November 27 - died in Dora.

Artist Peter Pavlovich Ghana does not belong to the most active public figures who have attracted attention. He was a painter and an exquisite chamber. His name always appeared in a number of the most famous artists of the Odessa: K. Kostandi, P. Nilus, T. Dvornikova, G. Golovkova, Bukovetskogo, Kandinsky and many others. His paintings were bought from collectors and artists exhibitions - for example, well-known collector A. Russo. In future works from his collection came to the Odessa Art Museum. Press with a great deal of attention to the creativity of the artist, the innovative, outstanding talent of the artist. often calling him the Impressionists.

Ghanaian family settled in the Ukraine by Catherine II, when the ancestor of the artist, Stephen Ghana, which served as secretary to the Richelieu, changed their land in Galicia on the land in the province of Kherson. The artist's father, Pavel Petrovich Ghana, was educated in France and worked as a manager of the Kherson Gentry Bank. Parents kept in the artist village Nikolaevka Anan'evskij district, Kherson province (now the Odessa region) estate. In the estate on March 1 (17.02) 1867 was born Peter Pavlovich Ghana.

In 1870 the family moved to Ghana in Odessa, is in the same year was born, his younger brother, Aleksey Ghana, later became a famous Russian astronomer who worked at the Pulkovo Observatory, surveyor, has repeatedly taken part in expeditions to Novaya Zemlya in Spain. Central Asia, initiated the creation of Simeiz branch of Pulkovo Observatory. Preparing for the next expedition, in 1908 in Simeis he tragically died.

At the end of secondary school Pyotr Pavlovich was an auditor of the Petersburg Academy of Arts (1885-1889), then continued his artistic education in Paris at the Academy de Beau-Ap, at Jerome. In 1890 appeared at the exhibitions as mature wizard. Participated in all exhibitions TYURH. Spring exhibition of the Academy of Fine Arts (1901, 1908), exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in Odessa (1917), at the Paris Salon of the Society of French Artists in 1900-1904-e gg. "Independent" in 1910-ies.