Kyriak Kostandi

Kyriak Kostiantynovych Kostandi (Ukrainian: Киріак Костянтинович Костанді; 3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1852 – 31 October 1921) was a prominent painter and an art scholar from the Russian Empire. A member of the Russian realist artistic movement Peredvizhniki (lit. Itinerants) he also authored several Impressionist paintings. Most of Kostandi's life and work is connected with the city of Odesa (now in Ukraine) in the southwest of the Russian Empire where he lived most of his life. His paintings are displayed in the museums of Odesa, Kyiv, Moscow and St. Petersburg.