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... great-grandfather FA Bruni - painter
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Feodor Antonovich Bruni (1799-1875) - one of the most significant representatives of the Russian academic school, the author of paintings on historical and biblical subjects, portraits.
Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts (since 1834). Honorary member of the Bologna and Milan's Academy of Arts, professor emeritus of the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts and Academy of St. Luke in Rome. In 1836 Bruni taught at the Academy of Arts, and from 1855 to 1871 was its rector.
He is one of the creators of the murals in the cathedral of St. Isaac's Cathedral St. Petersburg and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. From 1849 to 1864 - the keeper of the picturesque Department Hermitage, which did much to supplement the collections.