1. From 1899 to 1901 Boris Anrep went to school in Kharkov, where he first met Nikolay Nedobrovo, and spent the summer of 1899 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, learning English.
16 Facts About Boris Anrep
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From 1902 Boris Anrep studied in Imperial School of Jurisprudence in St Petersburg and graduated in 1905.
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Boris Anrep attended Academie de La Palette and Academie de la Grande Chaumiere.
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Boris Anrep fell in love with Helen Maitland, a close friend of A John's wife Dorelia.
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In 1912, Boris Anrep worked with the art critic Clive Bell on Roger Fry's second Post-Impressionist exhibition.
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Boris Anrep was in charge of the Russian section and presented pictures by Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, and Nicholas Roerich.
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Boris Anrep wrote poetry in Russian and in English, influenced by English romantics, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake.
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At the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Boris Anrep went to serve as an officer in the Russian army and fought in Galicia till 1916.
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Boris Anrep described their relationship as a warm friendship, but for Akhmatova it was intensely important and inspired over 30 poems, which trace the passage of their affair from her early hopes and dreams to her bitter disappointment at their parting.
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In 1926 the trustees of Saint Sophia, Bayswater commissioned Boris Anrep to execute a major set of mosaics in the sanctuary of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral.
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Boris Anrep settled on a scheme depicting the incarnation of Christ and the mystery and celebration of the Eucharist.
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Boris Anrep's design takes full use of its Byzantine domes.
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Boris Anrep was invited back to decorate further sections of the cathedral between 1932 and 1956.
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Boris Anrep realised two attractive mosaics of Saint Anne and Saint Patrick within the Cathedral of Christ the King Mullingar.
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Boris Anrep created four colourful mosaics, which decorate the imposing staircase built by Sir John Taylor in 1887 for the entrance hall of the National Gallery.
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Boris Anrep is looking towards another panel which depicts Anrep's gravestone, linking together his art and her poetry.