Belarus is missing a tourist trick with Chagall

The Independent on Sunday | November 30, 2008| | Copyright

This east European country doesn't make a big fuss about its famous artist son. That's a shame, says Mark Rowe

The childhood or working homes of most painters of world renown are now well-established tourist honey pots. The massing of art- hungry visitors at Monet's Giverny came to mind as I wandered, alone, around the house of Marc Chagall. Despite his Francophone name, Chagall lived in a bungalow down a quiet cobbled lane, which is to be found in Vitebsk in the international tourism backwater of Belarus.

Chagall was born in the city in 1887, and spent much of his youth at 11 Pokrovskaya ...

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