At that time Ukraine was called the East European Italy. Artists from<br />Russia and European countries visited Ukraine to enrich themselves<br />with new themes and images. One of such artists was Vasyl<br />schterberg, a friend or Shevchenko, a master of lyrical landscape<br />The Odesa art school and the Kyiv drawing school played an<br />important role at the beginning of the 20th century. Outstanding<br />artists such as Mykola Murashko and Mykola Pymonenko were<br />prominent representatives of that time. Some artists of Ukrainian<br />origin who taught in Kyiv school were Mikhail Vrubel, Vasili Vasnitsov<br />and lia Repin переклад