Firs Zhuravlyov

Firs Zhuravlyov (last name sometimes given as Zhuravlev) (1836-1901) was a Russian painter. He was obviously a painter of great skill, judging from these examples.

A Replete Table (1876)

 Before the Wedding

[the theme of the reluctant bride has never been so well painted as here]

 

 Chimney Sweep

Hen in the Bath (1881)

Nikolai Nikolayevich Karazin

Nikolai Nikolayevich Karazin (1842-1908) was a Russian military officer as well as a painter.

 After the Fire (1879)

 Cavalry in the 1812 Campaign (1893)

 Cossack on Horseback (1895)

 Entrance of Russian Troops into Samarkand on June 8, 1868

 Russian Troops Crossing the Amur Darya, 1873 (1889)

Khiva Expedition of 1873. 

Russian Troops Crossing the Death Sands to the Wells of Adam-Krylgan (1888)

 Winter Day

Horse Watering at the Edge of a Battlefield

The Fortune-Teller (1894)

Nikolai Yaroshenko

Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846-1898) was a Ukranian-born Russian painter.

A Peasant Girl (1891)

 Girl Student (1883)

 In a Warm Land (1890)

 Life is Everywhere (1888)

 Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1886)

[Saltykov-Shchedrin was a Russian satirist]

 On the Swing (1888)

 Girl Student (1880)

Sunset (1880s)

Vasily Perov, ctd

Nikita Pustosviat. Dispute on the Confession of Faith (1881)

 Portrait of F.F. Rezanov (1868)

 Sending off the Deceased (1865)

 Solitary Guitarist (1865)

[sometimes translated as The Bachelor Guitarist]

 Tea-Time in Mytischi (1862)

 The Birdcatcher (1870)

 The Last Tavern at the City Gates (1868)

Queue to a Reservoir (1865)

[I get cold just looking at this]

Troyka. Apprentice Workmen Carrying Water (1866)

[one of the most devastating depictions of poverty I have ever seen]

Vasily Perov

Vasily Perov (1834-1882) was a Russian painter of genre scenes and portraits. Many of his works display humor or irony, but others are dead serious. His paintings show him to be a keen observer of all levels of Russian society. Here is a YouTube movie about Perov (in Russian with English subtitles), focusing on the final painting of this set, his portrait of Dostoyevsky.

A Meal in the Monastery (1865-76)

 Amateur (1862)

 Arrival of a New Governess in a Merchant House (1866)

 Arriving at the Inquiry (1857)

 Easter Procession in a Village (1861)

 First Christians in Kiev (1880)

 The Hunters at Rest (1871)

 Incorrigible One (1873)

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1872)

Victor Vasnetsov, ctd

A second set of paintings by Vasnetsov. The first painting here, a portrait of his daughter, is one of the most delightful and sensitive portraits I have ever seen. Vasnetsov obviously loved his daughter deeply.

Portrait of Tatyana Vasnetsova, the Artist's Daughter (1897)

 Severnaya Country

 Tea-drinking in a Tavern (1874)

 The Flying Carpet (1880)

 The Unsmiling Tsarevna (1916-26)

[based on this story]

 Three Tsarevnas of the Underground Kingdom (1879)

[based on this story]

 After Igor Svyatoslavich's Fighting with the Polovtsy (1880)

[who was Igor Svyatoslavich? find out here] 

[who were the Polovtsy? find out here]

 Boyan (1910)

[about Boyan]

 Sleeping Beauty

The Snow Maiden (1899)

[based on this story]

Victor Vasnetsov

Victor Vasnetsov (1848-1926) was a Russian painter who often drew inspiration from fairy tales.

 A Game of Preference (1879)

[description of the game of Preference]

 A Knight at the Crossroads (1878)

 Acrobats (Festival in a Paris Suburb) (1876-77)

 At a Bookseller's (1876)

 Girl-friends (1878)

 Ivan Tsarevitch Riding the Grey Wolf (1889)

[the story this painting is based on]

 Ivan the Terrible (1897)

 Moving House (1876)

 News from the Front (1878)

Portrait of Sophia Shevtsova