Sviyazhsk [Konstantin Vasilyev]

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Konstantin Vasilyev (Константин Васильев) (1942-1976) was a Russian painter whose strength was in the Symbolist genre. He painted Sviyazhsk in 1973. 

Genuine painting copy by Igor Shepel (see bio below). Mounted in an ornate frame. About 5¾" x 7¾".

Igor Viktorovich Shepel was born in 1961 in the city of Rostov-on-the-Don. From 1978-1984 he studied at the Rostov College of Arts (named after M. Grekov (1882-1934, founding father of Soviet military theme and panoramic painting). Shepel is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and participates in many regional and personal exhibitions. He works and teaches at the Grekov Art School. He specializes in museum quality art done in oil, Russian masterpiece replicas as well as replicas of Western masters, both complex and simple. He is especially fond of painting landscapes as well as renditions of famous Russian icons. Many of his works are in museums, galleries and private collections in Russia, Germany, Brazil, and Canada.