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The monograph is the first to present a comprehensive analysis of the artistic life of Katerynoslav-Dnipropetrovs'k in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the context of artistic issues and general cultural processes of the time, the ways of developing art education as an important factor in the formation of the artistic environment in the city, as well as the formation of private collecting of works of art as the basis of museum business, are considered, exhibition activities and art criticism are analysed, and its value criteria are revealed. On the basis of the art historical analysis of works of fine art, the artistic and stylistic features of the work of local artists-pedagogues and their students, as well as the quality level of the city's art collections are determined.

As a result of the study, the main components of the artistic life of Katerynoslav-Dnipropetrovsk in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in their interconnection with the general processes of development of Ukrainian art are comprehensively revealed for the first time.