The painting “Maslenitsa” was painted in modern style by the Russian artist Kustodiev BM. in 1916 All actions in the picture take place on the main square of a provincial town. In […]

Despite the fact that the famous portrait painter was seriously ill, he did not show how the artists – the Wanderers, all the burdens and deprivations of the life of the people. […]

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev was born in 1878 in the family of the Astrakhan gymnasium teacher. At the age of fifteen, the artist began to actively master the mystery of drawing by the […]

It is not by chance that Kustodiyev chose one of the most significant rituals for the people as the theme for his work. The unique design of the artist was to show […]

The last one and a half decades of life, Kustodiev was a wheelchair user. It happened after an illness and a serious operation on the spinal cord. Partly because in his life […]

The idea of ​​the picture arose from Kustodiev during his stay at the Hermitage Hotel, whose windows overlook the Volga Embankment. It was she who served as a prototype of the holiday […]

Perhaps, there is no such person to whom this picture would not be known. The picture was painted under the impression of the October Revolution. The motive for writing the picture was […]

In the last week of February, Maslenitsa is traditionally celebrated in Russia. In Shrovetide festivities take part everything from small to large. Broad Maslenitsa is a national holiday, celebrating it colorfully and […]

In fact, Kustodiyev was quite an interesting image of the merchants. He painted their portraits in all sorts of angles, under the most bizarre interiors and in various poses, naked and dressed […]

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiyev – Russian painter of the late XIX first quarter of the XX century. The painting “Autumn” is part of a series of three paintings entitled: “Autumn in the province” […]