The best- know work of Ivan is a picture “the ninth wave”, excited in 1950. He was sent to a gymnasium in Semfiropol where he showed such as amazing artistic skills that influential local helped him to move to St. Petersburg to enter the Academy of Art, where he took the landscape painting course and was especially interested in marine landscapes. In 1840 Ayvazovsky goes on the task of Academy to Italy. The crucial role on determination of style of the artist, was played by arrival to St. Petersburg of Frenchman F. Tanner.

The Ninth wave