Георгий Калистратович Артемов
It is difficult to say to what extent Istanbul was a fateful impact on Artemoff in terms of his artwork, but there he met his future wife, artist Lydia Nikanorova.
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Ruffié, Paul. Georges Artemoff (1892–1965). Privat, 2018.
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Private Archive of Marie Artemoff-Testa, France.
Archives & Special Collections at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, Massachusetts).
Slavonic Library (Slovanská knihovna) in Prague.
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My deepest thanks go to Marie Artemoff-Testa for her valuable comments and help.
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire/Turkey (1920–1923); France (1923–1965).
Sultanahmet, Istanbul (residence); Küçük Yazıcı 4 (now presumably Tarlabaşı Blv. 79), Hüseyinağa, Beyoğlu, Istanbul (studio).
As a non-regular employee at the Russian Archaeological Institute of Constantinople before the Russian Revolution, Nikolai Kluge was perhaps the émigré artist most familiar with Istanbul.
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In Istanbul, Nikanorova worked at copying the mosaics and frescoes of the Kariye Mosque, and met her future husband, Georges Artemoff, also an émigré artist from the former Russian Empire.
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The exhibition of Russian-speaking émigré artists at Taksim Military Barracks was the first major exhibition organised by the Union of Russian Painters in Constantinople.
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The Union existed for less than two years but in that short space of time a tremendous amount of work was done by its members, refugees from the Russian Empire.
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