19th Century

Escape of Maryna Mniszech

This is a rare example of an historical theme in the art of Leon Wyczółkowski. The painting depicts Maryna Mniszech and her two-year-old son, Tsarevich Ivan, hiding in the snow from the army of the n...

Scene from the Time of Troubles (Saving Maryna Mniszech during the Uprising against the Poles on 17 May 1606 in Moscow)

When painting subjects from Russian history, Romantic artists loved to depict important or exciting events and bold, colourful, adventurous types. In this respect, the history of the Time of Troubles...

Portrait of Arkhip Kuinji

An outstanding Russian portraitist, Ilya Repin generally confined himself to images of relatives and friends in the 1870s. One of the most outstanding works from this period is his portrait of the fa...

Evening in the Ukraine

This is one of Arkhip Kuinji ’s most famous paintings, well-known to Russian viewers and often included in publications on the history of Russian art in the second half of the nineteenth century. The...

Birch Grove

In the 1870s, Arkhip Kuinji passed through a period of interest in Impressionism, especially the questions of light and recording rare states of nature. However, this particular canvas, which depicts...

Twilight

This painting belongs to the “reclusive” period in the art of Arkhip Kuinji, who stopped contributing to exhibitions after 1882. The artist did not show any new works to the public, preferring instea...

Autumn Quagmire

Arkhip Kuinji ’s painting sums up the development of the motif of the road and the landscape in the age of Critical Realism. In such works, a large portion of the canvas was traditionally occupied by...

Lake Ladoga

Arkhip Kuinji ’s canvas opens a series of north Russian landscapes painted in the direct aftermath of visits to Balaam. This picturesque island in the north of Lake Ladoga is home to the Balaam Monas...

Portrait of Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin

Ilya Repin claimed that this portrait of fellow Realist artist Ivan Shishkin was painted in St Petersburg “in two sittings, with intervals”. This explains why there are two inscriptions in the bottom...

Portrait of Ivan Shishkin

This portrait of Ivan Shishkin occupies a prominent place in the famous gallery of Russian artists, composers and writers painted by Ivan Kramskoi. The two men were good friends and their closeness i...

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