Chagall’s Belarus

The Belarusian city of Vitebsk makes little fuss over the memory of Marc Chagall, its most famous son, says Mark Rowe in the Independent on Sunday, but art pilgrims will find moving traces of his life here. Chagall would no longer recognise the city centre, razed during WWII (although its wide streets of postwar concrete buildings have already acquired a "fading grandeur"), but you can visit the bungalow where he grew up in quiet, cobbled Pokrovskaya Street. In the two spartan rooms, Chagall's own sketches present intimate glimpses of what family life must have been like; in nearby Peskovatics,where the artist was born, you'll see gaily coloured stone houses, tidy fences and ragtag children just like those in his paintings.
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