If Archipenko Is From Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine, and Rothko Is From Daugavpils, Latvia; Then Soutine And Chagall Are From Smilavichy And Liozno, Belarus

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If Alexander Archipenko Is From Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine, and Marc Rothko Is From Daugavpils, Latvia; then Chaim Soutine And Marc Chagall are from, respectively, Smilavichy And Liozno (Vitebsk), Belarus, and not Smilavichy and Liozno (Vitebsk), the Russia Empire. [Latvia is currently a member of the European Union; while Ukraine, Belarus, and the Russian Federation are Future Members of the European Union.]

Vitebsk, Belarus According To The First General Census of the Russian Empire of 1897

Language or group of languages Language or group of languages Males Females Both sexes ***

TOTAL 33413 32458 65 871
Russian Great Russian 10433 8591 19 024
Ukrainian 61 28 89
Belarusian 4212 3825 8 037
Total 14 706 12 444 27 150
Polish 1654 1649 3 303
Other Slavic languages Czech
Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian
Bulgarian
Lithuanian-Latvian dialects Lithuanian 81 16 97
Samogitian
Latvian 573 198 771
Romance languages Moldavian and Romanian
French
Italian
Spanish and Portuguese
German 430 540 970
Other Germanic languages Swedish
Norwegian and Danish
Dutch
English
Other Indo-European dialects Greek
Albanian
Armenian
Persian
Tajik
Talysh
Tat
Kurdish
Ossetic
Hindu
Gipsy 5 6 11
Pashto
Jewish 15898 17557 33 455
Kartvelian dialects Georgian
Imereti
Mingrelian
Svan
Dialects of Caucasian hill-peoples Kabardian
Circassian
Abkhaz
Chechen
Ingush
Kistin
Avar-Andi
Dargin
Kyurin
Udi
Kasi-Kumuk and other Lezgian dialects
Lezgian with no breakdown
Finnish dialects Finnish 3 7 10
Votyak
Karelian
Izhorian
Chud
Estonian 11 9 20
Lappish
Zyrian
Permyak
Mordovian
Cheremis
Vogul
Ostyak
Hungarian
Turkish-Tatar dialects Tatar 11 6 17
Bashkir
Misher
Teptyar
Chuvash
Karachay
Kumyk
Nogai
Turkish
Karapapak
Turkmen
Kyrgyz-Kaissak
Kara-Kirghiz
Kipchak
Kara-Kalpak
Sart
Uzbek
Taranchi
Kashgar
Turkic dialects with no breakdown
Yakut
Mongolian-Buryat dialects Kalmyck
Buryat
Mongolian
Dialects of the other Nothern nations Samoyed
Tungus
Manchu
Chukchi
Koryak
Kamchadal
Yukaghir
Chuvanian
Eskimo
Gilyak
Ainu
Aleut
Yenisei Ostyak
Languages of civilized peoples of the Far East Chinese
Korean
Japanese
Other languages and dialects Arabic
Aisor (Syro-Chaldean)
Other languages
Persons not specified mother tongue
Remainder (****) 41 26 67

Source: Demoscope Weekly. Electronic version of bulletin Naselenie i obschestvo (Population and Society) Institute of Demography at the Belarusian State University Higher School of Economics. 13-31 May 2009

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Amedeo Modigliani Portrait of Chaim Soutine Private Collection, Paris. Via Wikipedia Commons.

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