Word: repin
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...only 60 km northeast of Moscow, it's well worth a visit. In the years after Aksakov's death, the railroad magnate Savva Mamontov bought the estate and turned it into a colony for artists, writers and musicians, providing house space for Art Nouveau painter Mikhail Vrubel, Realist Ilya Repin, Impressionist Valentin Serov and landscape painter Vasili Polenov, among others. Both of Abramtsevo's historical periods are preserved?half of the manor house was kept in the Empire style of Aksakov's time, while the Mamontov section features fireplaces with colorful Art Nouveau tiles that Vrubel crafted...
...Abramtsevo itself features in many of the paintings on display. Mamontov's family posed here for portraits by Repin and Vrubel. A copy of Serov's The Girl with Peaches (1887, now in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery) hangs right by the window in front of which the eponymous girl, Mamontov's daughter Vera, sat for the artist...
...Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder well worth a visit. In the years after Aksakov's death, the railroad magnate Savva Mamontov bought the estate and turned it into a colony for artists, writers and musicians, providing house space for Art Nouveau painter Mikhail Vrubel, Realist Ilya Repin, Impressionist Valentin Serov and landscape painter Vasili Polenov, among others. Both of Abramtsevo's historical periods are preserved - half of the manor house was kept in the Empire style of Aksakov's time, while the Mamontov section features fireplaces with colorful Art Nouveau tiles that Vrubel crafted...
...relaxed you can bump into the stars around the town afterward." The stars will perform, solo and in combination, in 29 mostly intimate concerts under the blue-and-white tent. But the festival's undoubted highlight will be a 12-piece superorchestra, featuring violin maestros like Vadim Repin, Sarah Chang and Gidon Kremer, along with eight top-flight pianists, among them Evgeny Kissin, Martha Argerich and Mikhail Pletnev. The July 22 performance will be the starriest classical concert in living memory - four of the world's major TV companies will be there to record it, and a dvd release will...