Thursday, June 21, 2012

Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky

Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky (1850-1921) was a Russian painter (about whom I have been able to learn very little).

 Deep in the Forest

 Fascinating Speech (1916)

 Girl from Little Russia (1892)

 The Model

Ukrainian Girl Tending Geese (1892)

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky

Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky (1838-1898) was a Russian painter who specialized in battle scenes. Most of the battle pictures were depictions of incidents in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878, during which Dmitriev-Orenburgsky was "embedded" with the Russian Army. Many of his works seem to have been lost.

 Artillery Battle at Plevna. Siege Battery (1880)

 Capitulation of Fortress Nikopol on 4th July 1877 (1883)

 Capture of Grivitsa Strongpoint near Plevna by Romanians on 30th August 1877 (1885)

 Fire in the Village (1885)

 Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Crown Prince Nicholas Alexandrovich, 
and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich in Tsarskoe Selo (1880)

 Grand Prince Nikolai Nikolaevich Enters Trnovo in 1877 (1885)

 Lady Playing with her Dog (1868)

The Last Battle at Plevna on November 28, 1877 (1889)

 The Moscow Uprising of 1682 (1862)
[what was the Moscow Uprising of 1682? find out here]

The Russian Crossing of the Danube near Zimnitsa on 15 June 1877 (1883)

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Alexei Kivshenko

Alexei Danilovich Kivshenko (1851-1895) was a Russian painter affiliated with the Peredvizhniki (the “Wanderers,” a progressive art movement).

 A Wolf Caught Alive (1889)

 Battle of Shipka-Sheinovo, December 28, 1877 (1894)
[what was this battle about? find out here]

 Fair in the Ukraine (1882)

 Military Council in Fili in 1812 (1880)

Regarding the above painting, 
"On September 1, a military council took place in the house of a peasant named A. Frolov in the village of Fili. The problem was discussed whether to surrender Moscow without battle or to take battle to the enemy. The opinions of generals were divided; the majority declared their view for battle. Kutuzov, however, raised an objection. He thought that the loss of Moscow did not mean the loss of all Russia. He offered his plan about how to prepare the inevitable perish of the enemy by organizing the retreat of Russian troops along the Riazan road. The atmosphere of the council is reproduced on a copy of A. Kivshenko’s painting The Military Council in Fili on September 1 (13), 1812 displayed in the room. " Source: Mikhail Kutuzov and the War of 1812
 Nizhny Novgorod Dragoons Pursuing the Turks on the Road to Kars during the Battle on October 3, 1877

Raftsmen
 
 Storming the Fortress of Ardahan May 5, 1877

 Zhnitvo (1878)

Monday, June 18, 2012

Levitan, ctd

Here's the final set of paintings by Isaak Levitan.

 Spring in Italy (1890)

 Spring, High Waters (1897)

 Sunny Day (1883-84)

 The Quiet Abode (1890)

 The Volga (1889)

 Vladimirka Road (1892)

Water Lilies (1895)

Friday, June 15, 2012

Levitan, ctd

 Oak Tree (1880)

 On a Lake (1893)

 Overcast Day (1895)

The Volga. A Calm Day (1895)

The Evening After the Rain (1879)

 River in the Forest, Autumn

 Savvinskaya Sloboda near Zvenigorod (1884)

Sheaves and a Village Beyond the River (1880s)

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Levitan, ctd

 Cornflowers (1894)

 Dandelions (1889)

 Early Spring (1898)

 Evening Bells (1892)

 Felling Trees

 March (1895)

 Meadow on the Edge of a Forest (1898)

 Moon at Twilight (1899)

Moonlit Night, Highway (1897-98)

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Isaak Levitan

Isaak Levitan (1860-1900) was a Lithuanian Jew who is remembered as one of Russia's greatest landscape painters. The incongruity of his origins and his destiny is discussed in this interesting article. More about Levitan here. A book about Levitan's painting, Lyrical Landscapes, is available.

A Russian Lake (1895)

 A Train on its Journey

 After the Rain - Plios Village

 Alps (1897)

Autumn Landscape (1890s)

 Autumn

 Birch Forest (1885-1889)

 Brisk Wind, the Volga (1885)

By the Deep Waters (1892)