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The great-great-great-granddaughter of Ivan Aivazovsky became the honored guest of the celebrations in honor of conferring the name of the famous Russian artist to the airport of Simferopol, TASS reports. Amanda Rogers arrived in the Crimea from Australia. According to her, she is very glad to be there. She is pleased that Crimeans remember their great-great-great-grandfather. Aivazovsky was not only a great artist, but he also did a lot for Feodosia, assisted in the opening of the railway and helped to open a water line there.
Amanda Roges is a descendant of the third daughter of the artist Alexandra Lapsy. It is not her first visit to Crimea a for the first time; she spends most of her time in Feodosia, where her famous ancestor lived and was buried. The woman said she was going to come back there in the fall with her relatives.
The artist's great-great-granddaughter brushed aside all questions about possible sanctions, decisively stating that she was not afraid of them. “To be here for me is pride and joy,” she emphasized.
The festive events at the airport were also timed to the Day of Russia. A half dozen large reproductions of Aivazovsky’s painting were set in the waiting area. Guests of the events made photos with the actors impersonating Ivan Aivazovsky, his wife and poet Alexander Pushkin. A flash mob dance was held at the end of the celebration.
Now passengers of the Simferopol airport will receive boarding passes decorated with the image of Aivazovsky and his paintings. Yevgeny Plaksin, who heads the airport in the capital of Crimea, promised that in the current year a monument to the artist would appear there. The airport will promote the creativity of Aivazovsky.
Russkiy Mir reported that the names of outstanding Russians were assigned to forty-four Russian airports. The signature under the corresponding decree was put by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the end of May.
The 200th anniversary of the great artist was widely celebrated in 2016. The descendants of Aivazovsky living in Australia had the luck to see for the first time with their own eyes the works of their great ancestor in Russia. Ten representatives of the Aivazovsky family immediately came to our country. they visited the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Russkiy Mir
