Vardges surenyants biography of nancy

One hundred years ago today, on 6 April 1921, Vardges Sureniants (1860–1921) died in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Little-known in western Europe and North America, he was the father of Armenian narrative art, and his paintings were much admired by Ilya Repin among others.

He was not only a painter, but sculpted, illustrated literary works, and wrote.

Sureniants was born in south-west Georgia when it was still part of the Russian Empire. His father was an Armenian priest, and moved his family to Simferopol in the Crimea, then to Moscow, Russia.

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This gave the young Sureniants opportunity to study at a prestigious Armenian school, and from there to progress to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He graduated from that in 1879, and moved to Munich, Germany, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1881, Sureniants visited Italy, where he studied Armenian fine art and manuscripts.

He finished his formal training in Munich in 1885, then travellin