For 10 points, name this country home to Natalia Goncharova, Kazimir Malevich, and the icon painter Andrei Rublev.
In 1844, this modern country's navy appointed as its chief painter a man whose two depictions of the brig Mercury and 1850 masterpiece The Ninth Wave are among his more than three thousand seascapes. An artist from this present-day country who studied under a man known as Theophanes the Greek removed two figures from a work titled The Hospitality of Abraham to create a piece that depicts the Oak of Mamre behind three angels, who sit around a table and bless a cup containing a calf's head. A husband-and-wife pair from this modern country founded (*) Rayonism, which in turn inspired an artist from this country to pioneer geometric abstraction with paintings like Black Circle and White on White, foundational examples of this country's Suprematist movement. For 10 points, name this country home to Natalia Goncharova, Kazimir Malevich, and the icon painter Andrei Rublev.
In 1844, this modern country's navy appointed as its chief painter a man whose two depictions of the brig Mercury and 1850 masterpiece
Russia [or Rossiya; or the Russian Federation; or Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; accept the Russian Empire or Rossiyskaya Imperiya] &lt;Carson&gt;