noteworthy are Portrait of a Woman (1883) by Konstantin Makovsky; The Tempest is Coming by Ivan Aivazovsky; Sunset by Alexei Savrasov; Cattle Yard in Abramtsevo by Vasily Polenov; At the Stone by Ivan Kramskoi; The Charioteer, by Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg (sculptor); Prince Svyatoslav by Eugene Lanceray (sculptor); Mephistopheles by Mark Antokolsky (sculptor); Near the Monastery by German painter August von Bayer (1859); Oaks (1956); Moloditsya (1938) and Still Life with the Blue Broom (1930), by Oleksii Shovkunenko (born in Kherson). Notable people Grigory Adamov (1886–1945), Soviet science fiction writer Georgy Arbatov (1923–2010), Soviet and Russian political scientist. Vladimir Baranov-Rossine (1888–1944), Ukrainian/Russian/French painter, avant-garde artist and inventor. Max Barskih (born 1990), Ukrainian singer and songwriter. Stefania Berlinerblau (1852–1921), American anatomist and physician, investigated blood circulation Maximilian Bern (1849–1923), German writer and editor. Sergei Bondarchuk (1920–1994), Soviet and Russian actor, film director, and screenwriter Lev Davidovitch Bronstein (1879–1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist, was born in the village of Bereslavka, Kherson Governorate. Artem Datsyshyn (1979–2022), Ukrainian ballet dancer and soloist Ivan Gannibal (1735–1801), eminent Russian military leader and a founder of the city Sergei Garmash (born 1958), Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. Yefim Golïshev (1897–1970), painter and composer associated with the Dada movement in Berlin. Nikolai Grinko (1920–1989), Soviet and Ukrainian actor Kateryna Handziuk (1985–2018), Ukrainian civil rights and anti-corruption activist John Howard (1726–1790), English prison reformer; he died of typhus whilst in Kherson. Mircea Ionescu-Quintus (1917–2017), Romanian politician, writer and jurist Yurii Kerpatenko (1976–2022), Ukrainian conductor Ihor Kolykhaiev (born 1971), Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur, Mayor of Kherson since 2020 Samuel Maykapar (1867–1938), Russian romantic composer, pianist and professor of music Yuriy Odarchenko (born 1960),a politician, Governor of Kherson Oblast since 2014 Nicholas Perry (born 1992), social media personality, known online as Nikocado Avocado Sergei Polunin (born 1989), Russian ballet dancer, actor and model. Prince Grigory Potemkin (1739–1791), military leader, statesman and nobleman; a founder of the city. Salomon Rosenblum (1873–1925), later known as Sidney Reilly, a secret agent, adventurer and playboy, employed by the British Secret Intelligence Service; may have inspired spy character, James Bond. Nissan Rilov (1922–2007), former soldier, Israeli artist and supporter of Palestinians Moshe Sharett (1894–1965), 2nd Prime Minister of Israel from 1953 to 1955 Viktor Petrovich Skarzhinsky (1787–1861), wealthy landowner; squadron commander in the Russian Patriotic War of 1812 Inna Shevchenko (born 1990), Ukrainian feminist and leader of the