Descriptions of the Paintings

Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov created the “Waiting" back in 1959, when his long and successful creative career was concluding, at the age of fifty-six....

The picture titled the "Football" was created by Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov in the expressionist period, when he was only twenty-three-year-old student of VKHUTEMAS, back in 1926....

The picture titled the "Dispute" was created by Yuri Ivanovich Pimenov back in 1968, at the end of his glorious creative path, when the master was sixty-five....

It was Vasily Andreevich Tropinin’s passion to create portraits of children, as they were all so innocent, sweet, and bright, seeming to radiate warmth....

For a long time, there was no painter capable of accurate conveying of how Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin looked. Everyone added his own something to the image of the great poet and writer, attempting to create a truly romantic one....

The work of the famous Russian artist Vasily Andreevich Tropinin titled "The Lacemaker" was, indeed, a true breakthrough in painting, marking a new trend - a genre portrait....

Throughout his entire creative life, Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was carried by a thorough study of nature and the relationship of human with it....

The "Road in the Rye" presents a wide panorama, with a lonely figure of a traveler depicted in its center....

The picture under the "Polesye" title perfectly reflects Shishkin's favorite plot, since here one will find the age-old pine forest, which is truly proud and majestic, appearing before the viewers in all its unshakable tranquility....

The "Wood Cutting" is one of the very first works created by Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin's during his trip to Valaam....