Battle Scenes

19th century Russia saw a lot of armed conflict and numerous painters documented this in great detail. Here are a few of those paintings.

 Alexei Kivshenko: Battle of Shipka-Sheinovo, December 28, 1877 (1894)

 Alexei Kivshenko: Nizhegorodskiye Dragoons Pursuing the Turks on the way to Carswe during Aladzhinskogo Battle on October 3, 1877

 Alexey Bogolyubov: Battle near Gangut on the 27th July 1714 (1877)

 Franz Roubaud: Storming the Fortress of Akhulgo

 Nicholas Karazin: Entry of Russian Troops in Samarkand, June 8, 1868

 Paul Osipovich Kovalevsky: Crossing the Danube

 Sergey Miloradovich: The Defense of the Troitse–Sergiyeva Lavra by Russian soldiers and Orthodox

Viktor Mazurovsky: A Charge of the Russian Leib Guard on 14th June, 1807 (Friedland) (1912)

Ivan Aivazovsky, ctd

 Rescue at Sea (detail)

 Russian Black Sea Fleet on a Parade Review (1849)

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 Russian Fleet at Sunset (1888)

 Scenes of Life in Cairo (1880s)

Seascape, Malaga (1854)

 Sebastopol (1852)

 Ship in a Stormy Sea (1887)

 Ship in a Stormy Sea off the Coast (1895)

 Ships in a Storm (1860)

Shipwreck on the Black Sea (1875)

Lev Kamenev

Lev Lvovich Kamenev (1833 or 34 - 1886) was a Russian landscape painter. (There was also a Lev Kamenev who was a Bolshevik revolutionary who became a prominent Soviet politician. That's a different person!)

 By the Dam (1864)

 Fog. Red Pond in Moscow in Autumn (1871)

 Landscape (1868)

 Landscape with a Pond (1884)

 Landscape (1861)

 Moonlit Night on the River (1870s)

 View of the Village of Porechye (1869)

 

 View on the River Kazanka (1875)

Winter Road (1866)

Vladimir Makovsky

Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920) was a Russian painter. He was the brother of Konstantin Makovsky, another painter.

 A Literary Reading (1866)

 Anticipation (1875)

 The Convict (1879)

 Fishing (1884)

 Friends

 Girl with Geese (1875)

 Hiring Servants (1891-92)

Hunters at Rest (1887)

Vasiliy Vereshchagin, ctd

 After the Attack. Dressing Station near Plevna (1881)

 A Resting Place of Prisoners (1878-79)

In the Hospital, 1901

 In the Hospital, Letter Left Unfinished

 Kalmytskaya Chapel (1869-70)

 Kirghiz Nomad Tents on the River Chu (1869-70)

 Mausoleum of the Taj Mahal at Agra (1874-76)

 Moscow, 1812

 Mounted Warrior in Jaipur (ca. 1881)

Mullah Rahmin and Mullah Kerim Quarrelling on the Way to the Bazaar (1873)

Ivan Shishkin

Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) was a Russian landscape artist who specialized in paintings of forests.

 A Promenade in the Woods (1860s)

 Apiary in the Woods (1876)

 Apiary (1884)

 At the Edge of the Forest

 Autumn Forest (1876)

 Autumn, Park in Pavlovsk (1888)

 Backwoods (1872)

 Birchwood

 Brook in Birch Forest (1883)

Chashcha (1879)