Portraits

The artist is Peskorsky Ekaterina II (Great; 1729-1796)-nee Princess Sofia Augustus Frederick the Angalt-Tserbst. Born in the German city of Stetin. In 1744, she arrived in Russia as the bride of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich, the future Emperor Peter III. In the same year she accepted Orthodoxy with the name of Ekaterina Alekseevna and was…

The artist is neph Evdokia Lukyanovna Romanova (1608 – 1645) – nee Streshneva, daughter of the Mashchovsky nobleman, then Rolniki and boyar Lukyan Stepanovich Streshnev (? – 1650) and Anna Konstantinovna. Since February 1626 – the second wife of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. Mother of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (1629 – 1676).

The artist is unknown Elizabeth I Petrovna (December 18/29, 1709–25 December 1761/5) – Russian Empress (since 1741). The illegitimate daughter of Peter I and Martha Skavronskaya, therefore, when official consideration of the issue of succession in 1725-1730, was never considered as one of the applicants. With the support of the guard, a coup d’etat was…

The artist is Romanchev Leningrad painter Alexander Romanchev considered this portrait as a monument to his parents – Dmitry Isaevich (1895–1974) and Anastasia Dmitrievna (1896–1974), who lived during the revolution in the village of Great Gorenks of the Simbirsk province. The portrait is stylized for a provincial wedding photo of 1918, when the artist’s father,…

The artist is Zhilinsky About spiritual and earthly, the merger of man with nature, different generations – a picture that captured one of the artist teachers at the Surikov Institute – Nikolai Mikhailovich Chernyshev and his wife Antonin Alexandrovna. “Both of them love Russia, its customs, nature, art”. Zhilinsky writes with special care of portraits…

The artist is shamanov In post -war Soviet times, the family was called to public service with a “big picture”. In the late 1959-early 1960s, the artists of the “harsh style” and the currents close to it intended to break through the wall of the official-oriented viewer-state, and reach the person. Thematically their work corresponded…

The artist is Vatenin In one of the works of Valery Vatenin – “Portrait of Svetlana” – his little daughter carelessly cuts out pictures from the catalog of daddy work. Throughout the 1960-1980s, the children’s topic resolutely leaves ideological control and returns to the bosom of the family and personal space. This coincides with the…

The artist is Ivanov Victor Ivanov – Soviet and Russian painter and teacher, academician, People’s Artist of the USSR and laureate of a number of state prizes. The source of inspiration for Viktor Ivanov has always been his historical homeland – Ryazan land. “The meaning of my work,” says Viktor Ivanovich, “not in defending the…

The artist is Nesterov The “Russian Parisian” was called the artist Elizabeth Kruglikova, who worked and taught in Paris for about twenty years. Nesterov was delighted with her elegant and at the same time difficult art of engravings, the brightness of her talent and the portrait of meeting after a meeting in Moscow in May…

The artist is silver Konovalov Fedor Ilyich (1909–?) – steel of the Leningrad Kirov Plant, advanced manufacturer (“Stakhanovets”). The portrait of Konovalov is not the only case of the artist’s appeal to what was called “production theme”, but within a typical author always revealed the individuality of his models. For the happiness of the people….