Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
In 1920, Prokudin-Gorsky remarried and had a daughter with his assistant Maria Fedorovna née Schedrimo. The family finally settled in Paris in 1922, reuniting with his first wife and children. Prokudin-Gorsky set up a photo studio there together with his three adult children, naming it after his fourth child, Elka. In the 1930s, the elderly Prokudin-Gorsky continued with lectures showing his photographs of Russia to young Russians in France, but stopped commercial work and left the studio to his children, who named it Gorsky Frères. He died in Paris on September 27, 1944, a month after the Liberation of Paris. He is buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery.
House-Museum of Mitrofan Grekov
Battle painter Martyshchenko Mitrofan Pavlovich primarily known as Mitrofan Grekov was born in khutor of Sharpaevka, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire on 3 June 1882. He graduated from Odessa art school and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. Grekov is founder of Soviet battle genre. He spent in Novocherkassk 14 years of his life. Grekov lived here from June 1918 to 1931. At this period Grekov created 94 paintings include "To the squadron with Budyonny" (1923), "Tachanka" (1925), "Mounted attack" (1927), "Battle of stanitsa of Yegorlyvskaya" (1927-1928), the first Soviet diorama "Siege of Rostov". Mitrofan Grekov had served in Novocherkassk for four years and three months. Novocherkassk period of activity has been the most productive in the painter's biography. The opening ceremony of the House-Museum took place on 30 March 1957 23 years after death of Mitrofan Grekov.