Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 270. Chapters: Marc Chagall, List of Russian artists, Nikolai Timkov, Igor Grabar, Sergei Ivanovich Osipov, Nikolai Baskakov, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Semionov, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Evgenia Antipova, Irina Baldina, List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, Vladimir Ovchinnikov (painter), Dmitry Maevsky, Piotr Alberti, Wassily Kandinsky, Nikolai Pozdneev, El Lissitzky, Alexey Brodovitch, Slava Zaitsev, Mikhail Natarevich, Taisia Afonina, List of Russian landscape painters, Lev Russov, Alek Rapoport, Alexandre Alexeieff, Voina, Mikhail Lomonosov, Sonia Delaunay, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Tatyana Apraksina, Vitas, Alexey Leonov, Alexander Liberman, Peter Carl Faberge, Ilya Repin, Ladislas Starevich, Amshey Nurenberg, Boris Anisfeld, Oleg Vassiliev (painter), Natalia Pankova, Georgy Shishkin, Oleg Buryan, Zurab Tsereteli, Viktor Vasnetsov, List of 20th-century Russian painters, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Komar and Melamid, Tatiana Mamonova, Nicolas de Stael, 1964 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Yuriy Norshteyn, Andrei Rublev, 1972 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Alexander Archipenko, Simon Kozhin, Boris Anrep, Oleg Mavromati, Leonid Steele, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Bobri, 1956 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Vrubel, Aleksandr Deyneka, Boris Kustodiev, 1991 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, 1975 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Sergey Balovin, Israel Tsvaygenbaum, 1970 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Alex Shagin, 1957 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Belyaev (artist), Igor Chetvertkov, Mikhail Matyushin, 1985 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Fedot Sychkov, Alexander Zaytsev (artist), Bogdan Saltanov, Vasily Golubev, 1952 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, 1971 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Valentin Serov, Aleksandr Petrov (animator), 1980 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Valentin Galochkin, Igor Kufayev, Konstantin Korovin, 1976 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, 1967 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Vitaliy Nikolayevich Bubentsov, 1977 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, 1983 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Chaim Soutine, Vlady Kibalchich Russakov, German Yegoshin, 1984 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Andrei Molodkin, 1965 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Vikentii Trofimov, Isaac Levitan, Alexei Harlamov, 1973 in fine arts of the Soviet Union, Igor Berezovsky, Pavel Korin, Alexandre Benois. Excerpt: Marc Zaharovich Chagall (; Yiddish: Russian: Belarusian: ) (6 July 1887 - 28 March 1985) was a Jewish Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. He was an early modernist, and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century." According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists." For decades, he "had also been respected as the worlds preeminent Jewish artist." Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opera. Before World War I, he traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the countrys most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avante-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922. He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer...