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Abram Zaborov
Abram Zaborov (Belarusian Абрам Забораў; 18 February 1911, :en:Liozna, Liozna, Vitebsk Region — 1985, Israel) — Soviet Belarusian and Israeli painter of Jewish descent, the member of the Union of Painters of the USSR, the father of famous French painter :en:Boris Zaborov, Boris Zaborov."Арт-календарь - 2015". Редкий портрет художника Абрама Заборова Biography The mother of Abram, Sifra Naumovna, owned a store, where the father of the future painter, Boris Zaborov, Boris A. Zaborov, was working. Abram's maternal grandfather worked as a bailiff at the estate of a gentleman from :en:Liozna, Liozna. The circumstances forced the family to leave :en:Liozna, Liozna and return to Abram's father's native town of :en:Velizh, Velizh. There Abram Zaborov entered a 7-year Jewish school, where he first demonstrated his artistic talent. This was the period of the :en:Russian Civil War, Russian Civil War. Soviet :en:propaganda, pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Liozna
Lyozna ( be, Лёзна, Liozna; russian: Лиозно, Liozno; pl, Łoźna; german: Ljesno; yi, ליאזנע, Lyozne) is an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Lyozna District. It is located close to the border with Russia by the Vitebsk- Smolensk railroad branch and highway, on the Moshna River. As of 2023, it has a population of 6,631. History The first known record of the Lyozna '' shtetl'' (small town with a high Jewish population) is dated 1654. In 1939, 711 Jews lived in the settlement, making up 17.3 percent of the population. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the settlement was captured on 16 July 1941 by V Army Corps of the 9th Army; it was part of Army Group Centre Rear Area. Lyozna was under German occupation until 8 October 1943. Notable people * Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter * Schneur Zalman, the first Rebbe of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Hasidism, sometimes spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Boris Zaborov
Boris Abramovich Zaborov ( be, Барыс Абрамавіч Забораў; 16 October 1935 – 20 January 2021) was a Belarusian and French artist. He moved to Paris, France in 1980 to begin a career in painting that resulted in numerous exhibitions and increasing recognition in European, American, and Russian art circles. Early life Zaborov was born in 1935 in Minsk to Abram Zaborov and Esfir Rappoport and, with his family, experienced the German invasion and occupation of Minsk in World War II. When his family returned to Minsk after the war, they found the city in ruins. In 1950 he enrolled in the Minsk Fine Arts School, leaving in 1953 for Leningrad and the entrance exams at the Academy of Fine Arts. Although he failed the exam, he was accepted the following year as a first year student. He described his time at the Academy as a wonderfully self-contained existence, relatively isolated from the Soviet system. At the end of his second year, he participated in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Zaborov
Boris Abramovich Zaborov ( be, Барыс Абрамавіч Забораў; 16 October 1935 – 20 January 2021) was a Belarusian and French artist. He moved to Paris, France in 1980 to begin a career in painting that resulted in numerous exhibitions and increasing recognition in European, American, and Russian art circles. Early life Zaborov was born in 1935 in Minsk to Abram Zaborov and Esfir Rappoport and, with his family, experienced the German invasion and occupation of Minsk in World War II. When his family returned to Minsk after the war, they found the city in ruins. In 1950 he enrolled in the Minsk Fine Arts School, leaving in 1953 for Leningrad and the entrance exams at the Academy of Fine Arts. Although he failed the exam, he was accepted the following year as a first year student. He described his time at the Academy as a wonderfully self-contained existence, relatively isolated from the Soviet system. At the end of his second year, he participated in the obligat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bailiff
A bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French ''baillis'', ''bail'' "custody") is a manager, overseer or custodian – a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their offices and duties vary greatly. Another official sometimes referred to as a ''bailiff'' was the ''Vogt''. In the Holy Roman Empire a similar function was performed by the ''Amtmann''. British Isles Historic bailiffs ''Bailiff'' was the term used by the Normans for what the Saxons had called a '' reeve'': the officer responsible for executing the decisions of a court. The duty of the bailiff would thus include serving summonses and orders, and executing all warrants issued out of the corresponding court. The district within which the bailiff operated was called his '' bailiwick'', even to the present day. Bailiffs were outsiders and free men, that is, they were not usually from the bailiwick for which they were responsible. Throughout Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Velizh
Velizh (russian: Ве́лиж) is a town and the administrative center of Velizhsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Western Dvina, from Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History In the late 14th century, it used to be a border fortress of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Muscovy recaptured it in 1536. Lithuania recaptured it in 1562, then Muscovy again in 1563, then Polish forces led by Jan Zamoyski captured it in 1580, confirmed by the 1582 Truce of Yam-Zapolsky. In 1585, King Stephen Báthory of Poland established the coat of arms and granted privileges for the townspeople. In 1654 it was occupied by Russia, but in 1667 it was restored to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the First Partition of Poland in 1772 the town was annexed by Russia and included into newly established Pskov Governorate, a giant administrative unit comprising what is currently Pskov Oblast and a considerable part of Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:Russian Civil War
{{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Russian Civil War , partof = the Russian Revolution, the aftermath of World War I, and the interwar period , image = , caption = Clockwise from top left:{{flatlist, * Soldiers of the Don Army * Soldiers of the Siberian Army * Bolshevik suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion * American troops in Vladivostok during the Allied intervention * Victims of the Red Terror in Crimea * Hanging of Bolsheviks in Yekaterinoslav by the Austrians * A review of Red Army troops in Moscow , date = 7 November 1917{{snd16 June 1923{{sfn, Mawdsley, 2007, pp=3, 230 {{nwr, ({{Age in months, weeks and days , month1=11, day1=07, year1=1917, month2=06, day2=16, year2=1923) , place = Former Russian Empire , result = *Bolshevik victory * Partial victory by independence movements (see {{slink, #Aftermath) , combatants_header = Main belligerents , combatant1 = {{Ubl , Bolsheviks: , {{flagdeco, Russian SFSR, 1918 Russian SFSR(1917–22) , { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
