Edward Petrovich Hau

Edward Petrovich Hau (1807-1887) was a Russian painter who specialized in detailed (almost photographically so) renditions of palace rooms - a documentation of how the 1% in 19th century Russia lived.

 Bathroom of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in the Winter Palace

 Blue Drawing-Room in the Mariinsky Palace

 Boudoir of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna in the Winter Palace

 Cathedral in the Winter Palace

 Fourth Spare Half-Bedroom in the Winter Palace

["fourth spare half-bedroom"? are you kidding me?]

 

 Hall of the German School in the New Hermitage

[paintings of paintings take a special skill, it seems to me]

 

 Hall of the Russian School in the New Hermitage

[the large painting on the right is The Last Day of Pompeii by Karl Briullov]

 Interiors of the Winter Palace. The Antechamber of Tsesarevich Alexander Nikolayevich

Military Gallery of 1812 in the Winter Palace

Mikhail Ivanovich Zoschenko

Mikhail Ivanovich Zoschenko (1857-1907) was a Russian painter.

 The District Court (1888)

Letter from Survivors

Ivan Welz

Ivan Welz (1861-1930) was a Russian landscape artist.

Beginning of Winter

 Frost

 Spring in the Vicinity of St. Petersburg

Ukranian Night

Ilya Repin, ctd

Here's my final set of paintings by this great Russian artist. Each one is a treasure, and it's fun to speculate about the story being told in each painting.

 Portrait of S.I. Lyubitskaya (1877)

 Returning Home (1876-77)

 Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (1876)

 Seeing off a Recruit (1879)

Self-Portrait (1894)

 Soldier's Tale (1877)

 Tolstoy Ploughing (1887)

 Tsar Ivan Grozny Killing his Son on 15 November 1581 (1873)

[Ivan Grozny = Ivan the Terrible] [more about this painting]

Unexpected Return (1884)

 Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873)

[more about this painting] [still more]

What Freedom! (1903)

Ilya Repin, ctd

My second set of paintings by Ilya Repin.

 Party (1883)

 Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887)

 Portrait of Maria Tenisheva (1898)

[more about this painting]

 Portrait of S.I. Menter anagoria (1887)

 Portrait of Sophia Dragomirova (1889)

 Portrait of Vasily Kirillovich Syutayev (1882)

Portrait of Vera Ilyinichna Repina, the Artist's Daughter (1899)

 Portrait of a Negress (1907)

 Portrait of the Author Alexey Pisemsky (1880)

 Portrait of the Composer Modest Mussorgsky (1881)

[who was Mussorgsky?] [he composed this dramatic piece]

Rest (Portrait of the Artist's Wife) (1882)

Ilya Repin

Ilya Yefimovitch Repin (1844-1930) was one of the most celebrated Russian artists of the latter half of the 19th century. Popular as both a portraitist and a painter of realistic genre scenes, he found surprising new fame in the Soviet era, when he was held up as a model for the new generation of Socialist Realist artists.

This is the first of three sets of Repin's works.

 A Nun (1878)

 A Parisian Café (1875)

 Aleksander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow
(1885-86)

 Arrest of a Propagandist (1880-92)

 Arrival of the Tsars Peter I and Ivan V (1900)

Choosing a Bride for the Grand Duke (1884)

[more about this painting]

  Dragonfly. Portrait of Vera Repina, the Artist's Daughter (1884)

 Easter Procession in the Region of Kursk (1880-83)

[more about this painting]

 Family Portrait (1905)

 Hunchback (1881)

 Mikhail Glinka Composing the Opera 'Ruslan and Lyudmila' (1887)

[more about Glinka] [more about Ruslan and Lyudmila] [Ruslan and Lyudmila overture]

Nikolai Pimonenko

Nikolai Pimonenko (1862-1912) was a Ukranian painter.

Easter Morning Prayer in Little Russia

 Haymaking

 The Christmas Divination (1888)

 Ukrainian Night (1905)

Victim of Fanaticism (1899)

 The Ford (1901)

 Harvest in Ukraine

Matchmakers

Evening