“Artists said about Bryullov that he was a good mathematician, graduated from the university and attended lectures on mathematics in England. Mathematicians assured that he was a musician who graduated from the conservatory, and the musicians brought him back into the fold of artists. Where Bryullov studied and what he graduated from - I don’t know; it looks like he went through the university, the Academy of Arts, and the conservatory. His nature was very gifted, and it seemed that it cost him nothing to study all three specialties...”