Early Life and Education Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (Russian: И́горь Эммануи́лович Грабарь, 25 March 1871 – 16 May 1960) was a Russian Post-Impressionist painter, publisher, restorer and historian of art. Grabar, descendant of a wealthy Rusyn family, was trained as a painter by Ilya Repin in Saint Petersburg and by Anton Àžbe in Munich. He reached his peak in painting between 1903–1907 and was notable for a peculiar technique bordering on pointillism and his rendition of snow. His early life unfolded amidst the turbulent currents of late nineteenth-century Russia, shaped profoundly by his fami…