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Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (Template:Lang-ru, April 4 1862 N.S. - May 31 1945) was a Russian Impressionist painter.

Biography

Leonid Pasternak was born in Odessa to the family of a Jewish inn-keeper on April 4 1862. He was the youngest of the six children in the family. He started to draw very early, but the family was trying to stop him, as they were affraid the drawing interfer with his school studies. His first sponsor was the local street cleaner who actualy was buying the art of Pasternak since Leonid was seven years old.

In 1881-1885 Leonid studied at Moscow University, first at Medical Department, then at the Department of Law. Eventually he decided to devote his life to the Art and entered the Royal Academy of Art in Munich that he graduated in 1887. He returned to Russia, served the compulsory two years in the Army (artillery regiment) and started a carreer as a full time painter.

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