Complete the sentences with the words from the list.

Ivan Aivazovsky was one of the ... Russian artists of his time who also served as the main painter of the Russian Navy. He was a ... artist whose career lasted for almost 60 years during which he created around 6,000 paintings. Aivazovsky was ... the Order of St. Vladimir in 1865 and the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky in 1897 by the Russian Empire. He is regarded as one of the greatest ... of all time.