On his painting, Aivazovsky showed the peak of the encounter. But the marine painter selected for his work light coloration symbolizing successful for the Russian sailors and captured girls outcome of the battle. 

 
Painting Sunrise Over the Black Sea was delivered from the Russian Museum to the Arsenyev Museum of Local History in 1930, and already in 1966, it was handed over to the Primorye Picture Gallery. In 1962, the landscape was restored in the Academician I.E. Grabar All-Russia Art Research and Restoration Centre. 

 
During the eighty years of his life, Ivan Aivazovsky created six thousand paintings showing various states of the sea, battles and shipwrecks. Having started painting the sea when he still studied in the Academy of Arts, Aivazovsky quickly surpassed his teachers. In appreciation of the artists’ outstanding achievements, Professors sent him on a pension trip abroad two years earlier than it was usually done.

 
Aivazovsky’s paintings are distinguished with vivid colors and showiness of the depicted scenes, which often gave rise to criticism on the part of painters-Itinerants who followed the realistic tradition in painting. But Aivazovsky himself painted in keeping with the spirit of romanticism and believed that a piece of art must arouse strong emotions: awe, thrill, anxiety or dismay. His favorite subjects were unpredictable waves, despair of man before them and, at the same time, courage and hope. 

 
Gradually, the artist almost stopped painting from life. Having a phenomenal memory, he created his paintings in the studio. He believed that ‘the movement of live elements cannot not be captured with a brush: it is impossible to paint from nature a lightning, a gust of wind, a splash of wave, an artist has to remember them’.