1. Orest Kiprensky was an illegitimate son of a landowner Alexey Dyakonov, hence his name, derived from Kypris, one of the Greek names for the goddess of love.
10 Facts About Orest Kiprensky
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Orest Kiprensky was raised in the family of Adam Shvalbe, a serf.
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Orest Kiprensky studied at the boarding school and the academy itself until 1803.
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Orest Kiprensky lived at the academy for three more years as a pensioner to fulfill requirements necessary to win the Major Gold medal.
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Orest Kiprensky had to ask the members of the Imperial Academy of Arts for letters supporting his authorship.
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Orest Kiprensky bought her from her dissolute family and employed as his ward.
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In 1828, Orest Kiprensky came back to Italy, as he got a letter from his friend Samuil Galberg, informing him that they had lost track of Mariucci.
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Orest Kiprensky found Mariucci, who had been transferred to another convent.
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Orest Kiprensky had to convert into Roman Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy for this marriage to happen.
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Orest Kiprensky died by pneumonia in Rome later that year.