Both countries lay claim to Ivan Aivazovsky and his works, many of which were in Crimea when it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.

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13.75 x 23.75 in. (34.9 x 60.3 cm.) ...

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Thanks to his operatic successes, he had plenty of money and he bought his first boat in New York: a state-of-the-art speedboat ... it’s worth the effort. Ivan Aivazovsky: The Ninth Wave ...