music-Mikhail Glinka - Russlan and Ludmilla Overture <br />Paintings of Isaac Ilyich Levitan(Russian: Исаак Ильич Левитан, August 30, 1860 -- August 4 [O.S. July 22] 1900) was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the mood landscape. <br />Isaac Levitan was born in a shtetl of Kybartai, Kaunas region, Lithuania, into a poor but educated Jewish family. His father Elyashiv Levitan was the son of a rabbi, completed a Yeshiva and was self-educated. He taught German and French in Kaunas and later worked as a translator at a railway bridge construction for a French building company. At the beginning of 1870 the Levitan family moved to Moscow. <br /><br />In September 1873, Isaac Levitan entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where his older brother Avel had already studied for two years. <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Levitan
