Arkhip Kuindzhi was a Russian/Ukrainian painter especially famous for landscapes and also a member of the Peredvizhniki movement which took art exhibitions around the country. In 1991, on the 150th anniversary of his birth, the apartment where Kuindzhi lived for the last 13 years of his life was turned into a museum. The highlight of the museum in the workshop which enjoys great views of the city. The museum is run as a branch of the scientific and research museum of the Russian Academy of Art.