In 2023 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York classified Ilya Repin (1844-1930) and Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) as Ukrainian, rather than Russian artists, based on the fact that they were born in what would later be Ukraine. Aivazovsky’s case is especially curious as his hometown Feodosia in Crimea became part of Soviet Ukraine 54 years after his death…

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