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...wanted to paint. Sent to cadet school in Moscow and later commissioned in an infantry grenadier regiment, Jawlensky petitioned for a transfer to St. Petersburg, where as an officer he could study painting. Finally he resigned, to take off for Munich with another young painting enthusiast, Baroness Marianne Werefkin. Six years later the handsome, passionate and strong-willed Jawlensky had a child by Marianne's young ward, Helena Neznakomov, who became his devoted wife...
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