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Mikhail Kroshitsky Sevastopol Art Museum
The M. Kroshitsky Sevastopol Art Museum (Ukrainian: Севастопольський художній музей імені М. П. Крошицького) is an art museum located in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. The museum is located in the centre of the city, in a "remarkable" four-story mansion with a "magnificently decorated facade," built in the late 19th century by the "personal honorary citizen of Sevastopol" merchant Semyon Gavalov. After the formation of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1921, the museum was opened in November 1927 “for the broadest masses of the people.” It was renamed in 1991, in honour of Mikhail Kroshitsky, museum director from 1939 to 1958. Its collection is organized into three departments: Western European Art, Art of the Russian Empire of the 18th - early 20th centuries, and Soviet, or more specifically Crimean, Art of the 20th century. The collection Development Foundation The museum was founded during Crimea's brief p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sevastopol
Sevastopol (; uk, Севасто́поль, Sevastópolʹ, ; gkm, Σεβαστούπολις, Sevastoúpolis, ; crh, Акъя́р, Aqyár, ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea, and a major port on the Black Sea. Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history. Since the city's founding in 1783 it has been a major base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet, and it was previously a closed city during the Cold War. The total administrative area is and includes a significant amount of rural land. The urban population, largely concentrated around Sevastopol Bay, is 479,394, and the total population is 547,820. Sevastopol, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and under the Ukrainian legal framework, it is administratively one of two cities with special status (the other being Kyiv). However, it has been occupied b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
