Savva (Savely) Vasilyevich Yamshchikov (russian: Са́вва (Саве́лий) Васи́льевич Ямщико́в; October 8, 1938 – July 19, 2009) was a leading expert on Russian provincial art, particularly medieval icon painting and portrait painting of the 18th and 19th centuries. Yamschikov graduated from the Moscow University and worked at the All-Russian Art Restoration Center in Moscow. He went from one province to another in order to find medieval icons that required cleansing. Yamshchikov curated over 300 art exhibitions and first brought to light a number of provincial portraits from

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Rybinsk Rybinsk ( rus, Рыбинск, p=ˈrɨbʲɪnsk), the second largest city of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia, lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna Rivers, 267 kilometers north-north-east of Moscow. Population: It was previously known as ...

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. It was he who rediscovered such forgotten artists as

Grigory Ostrovsky Grigory Silovich Ostrovsky (1756–1814) was a Russian portrait painter active during the 18th century in the Kostroma Governorate. Career Almost nothing is known of Ostrovsky's life, and little is known about his career; the only paintings ...

, Dmitry Korenev, and Nikolay Mylnikov. He also advised Andrei Tarkovsky on the production of '' Andrei Rublev'' and

Sergey Bondarchuk Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук, ; uk, Сергі́й Федорович Бондарчук, Serhíj Fédorovych Bondarchúk; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian ...

on the production of '' Boris Godunov''. Yamshchikov spent much of his later life in Pskov, helping preserve medieval architecture of the region. He died in Pskov and was buried in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yamshchikov, Savva 1938 births 2009 deaths Russian art curators Soviet art historians Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers Russian art historians Moscow State University alumni 20th-century Russian writers Writers from Moscow