- Edgar Degas \\ Edgar Degas was very experimental with his mediums in art, often drawing with chalk, painting with oil on canvas, and sketching dancers in pencil...
- English: Konstantin Savitsky Art School, Lermontova Street 6 / Bogdanova Street 1, Penza.
- In the central part of the city of Penza, there is a beautiful Art Nouveau building with a colored majolica panel and a tower topped with a four-sided tent.
- In 1786, the Penza Public School was founded - one of the oldest educational institutions in Russia. In 1796, the town became the center of the Penza Governorate.
- Penza's art gallery was opened in 1891 and now bears the name of artist Konstantin Savitsky who died in Penza in 1905.
- Penza is the administrative centre of the Penza Region. It is located on seven hills on both banks of the Sura River, 625 kilometres southeast of Moscow.
- Aristarkh Lentulov (1882–1943), Russian avant-garde artist of Cubist orientation; studied art in the Penza art school.
- He began his art education in 1948 at the Penza Art School where his teacher was Aleksandr Shurchilov (1915-1970.)