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Isaac Levitan's Life and Work Timeline
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August 18 (by the Old Style, 30): Born into the family of a railroad employee Ilya Abramovich Levitan in Kibarty (today Kibartai village in Lithuania).
1860s-early 1870s
Home preschool education.
Early 1870s
The Levitan family, including children (Isaac, Adolf, Teresa and Emma), moved to Moscow in hope of a better life.
The work of Isaac Ilyich Levitan belongs to the highest achievements of Russian culture.
Initially, the family lived near Solyanka Street off the savings made by the father when he worked as a private tutor (a Yeshiva graduate, he had taught foreign languages in Kovno (now Kaunas)).
1873
Following his brother Adolf's suit, Isaac applied and in September was admitted to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (the Art School).
(Adolf had enrolled at the Art School in 1871). Attended Alexei Savrasov's landscape classes (from 1874), and Vasily Perov's and Vasily Polenov's classes (from 1882).
1875