Gallery. Briullov, Karl Pavlovitch, a celebrated painter, his masterpiece is The Last Day of Pompeii

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Briullov, Karl Pavlovitch, a celebrated painter, his masterpiece is "The Last Day of Pompeii". Born in St. Petersbourg 1799, died in Manciana, 30 miles from Rome on the 11 (23) June 1852. *

* Image and English text are from Portretnaia galereia russkikh literatorov, zhurnalistov, khudozhnikov i drugikh zamechatel'nykh liudei. / Izd. A.E. Miunstera. 1859. God I. – Spb.: [Tip. i lit. A. Miunstera], 1859.