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Boris Kriukow
Boris Kriukow ( ukr, Борис Іванович Крюков; January 19, 1895 – March 6, 1967), also known by the pseudonym Ivan Usatenko ( ukr, Іван Усатенко), was a Ukrainian Argentine artist. It is possible that his original surname was Kryukiv ( ukr, Крюків) but the family kept the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian spelling even abroad. Kriukow was born on January 19, 1895, in the town of Orhei, Orgeev, in Bessarabia Governorate, Bessarabia, where his father, an official of the Russian Empire, worked at the local court of justice. As a young man he studied at Fedir Krychevsky's art school in Kyiv, Kiev, and after finishing his training in 1918 he moved to Kamianets-Podilskyi, Kamenets to teach at the local tekhnikum. As an artist, Kriukow focused on graphic art, and in the interwar period he illustrated over 500 books, among them works by Taras Shevchenko, Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Franko, Charles Dickens, Dickens, Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Antonenko-Davydov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orhei
Orhei (; Yiddish ''Uriv'' – אוריװ), also formerly known as Orgeev (russian: Орге́ев), is a city, municipality and the administrative centre of Orhei District in the Moldova, Republic of Moldova, with a population of 21,065. Orhei is approximately north of the capital, Chișinău. History Orhei takes its name from the Hungarian Őrhely, , as it was an outpost of the Hungarian army guarding the ''gyepű''. It was the Ottoman-occupied military center of northern Bessarabia until it was ceded to the Russian Empire in 1812. The word "orhei" was used by local population, meaning "strengthened hill, fortress, deserted courtyard". The name "Orhei" is, derived from the Hungarian language, Hungarian word Őrhely or Várhely, the earlier meaning "lookout post", dating from the 13th century, when Hungarian forces built a series of defences in the area. Orhei gets its name from Orheiul Vechi, an active monastery near the village of Ivancea. Like the rest of Bessarabia, Orhei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |