Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Armenian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.
Self-portrait, 1874, oil on canvas, 70.5 cm × 62.5 cm (27.8 in × 24.6 in), Uffizi, Florence (not in exhibition)
Aivazovsky's signature in Russian, 1850
Aivazovsky's signature in Armenian on oil painting from 1899
A self-portrait, 1830s–1840s
Armenians in Russia or Russian Armenians are one of the country's largest ethnic minorities and the largest Armenian diaspora community outside Armenia. The 2010 Russian census recorded 1,182,388 Armenians in the country. Various figures estimate that the ethnic Armenian population in Russia is actually more than 2 million. Armenians populate various regions, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Krasnodar Krai in the North Caucasus and as far as Vladivostok in the East.
Portrait of Russian-Armenian General Valerian Madatov by George Dawe from the Military Gallery, 1820
Commemoration of the Armenian genocide in Volgograd, 2012
Protests in Moscow against the extradition and pardon of Ramil Safarov, 2012
The Armenian Cathedral of Moscow, completed in 2011
