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Nikolai Kulikovsky with his wife Olga

Nikolai Kulikovsky (5 November 1881 – 11 August 1958) was the second husband of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, the sister of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of Tsar Alexander III. He was born into a military landowning family from the south of the Russian Empire, and followed the family tradition by entering the army. In 1903, he was noticed by Grand Duchess Olga during a military review, and they became close friends. Olga wanted to divorce her first husband, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, and marry Kulikovsky, but neither her husband nor her brother, the Tsar, would allow it. Kulikovsky and Olga eventually married and had two sons. Olga's brother was deposed in the Russian Revolution and Kulikovsky was dismissed from the army by the revolutionary government. The Kulikovskys were then forced into exile in Denmark, where they lived until after World War II. The family emigrated to Canada in 1948. Kulikovsky died in 1958, aged 76, and was buried at York Cemetery, Toronto. (Full article...)

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One Hundred Horses is a 1728 painting by the Italian artist Giuseppe Castiglione, who served as a court painter during China's Qing dynasty. It is a 7.76-metre-long (25.5 ft) silk handscroll that depicts one hundred horses resting, galloping and crossing a river in a wooded landscape. Castiglione combined traditional Chinese painting techniques with European approaches to perspective and shading, creating a sense of depth and movement. One Hundred Horses was created for the Yongzheng Emperor, and it was declared a masterpiece in 1735 by his successor, the Qianlong Emperor. The painting is now held by the National Palace Museum in Taipei, while a sketch is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Painting credit: Giuseppe Castiglione

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