Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Evening in St. Petersburg”
The picture is painted in oil on canvas in 1871 in the urban landscape genre. Vasily Surikov is a great Russian artist. He gave our country a huge cultural heritage, was a […]
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Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Cossacks in a boat”
The great artist Vasily Surikov loved his native Siberian lands very much. This was the reason for the creation of his works in historical genre. The struggle of Ermak with the Tatars […]
Description of the painting by Vasily Ivanovich Surikov “Siberian Beauty (1891)”
The first thoughts that arise when seeing this picture, once again convince us that the true female beauty does not need any decorations. This opinion was shared by the artist himself, who […]
Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Menshikov in Berezov”
Surikov wrote the canvas “Menshikov in Berezov” in mid-1883. Due to this, he began to be called not only an artist, but also a painter-historian. He was able to accurately display various […]
Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Suvorov’s Crossing the Alps”
As a matter of fact, the very idea of the painting arose from the famous Russian artist V. Surikov in honor of the centenary of the Alpine passage of the great commander […]
Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “The Feast of Valtasar”
Vasily Surikov was born in Krasnoyarsk in 1848 into a family of hereditary Don Cossacks, who came along with Yermak back in the 16th century when conquering Siberia. The talent for painting […]
Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Taking the Snow Town”
The soul of the Russian people is always hungry for holidays and noisy festivities. And we are used to celebrate such major holidays as Maslenitsa on a grand scale. In the homeland […]
Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Monument to Peter the Great on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg”
The first completed work of the artist Vasily Surikov was the winter landscape “View of the monument to Peter I on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg,” curious is the fact that […]
Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “The old man gardener”
The painting “The Old Man Gardener” is an excellent example of a rural portrait. Surikov preferred to paint pictures on historical subjects, but if the master decided to depict a simple rural […]
Description of the painting by Vasily Surikov “Boyary Morozov”
V. Surikov’s painting “Boyarynya Morozova” is famous for its gigantic size and was painted by the artist in 1887, depicting a scene from the period of church schism in the 17th century. […]