Russian life. Estate, city and village
How nineteenth-century painters depicted work, wealth, education and changes in everyday life.
Russian paintings
Explore Russian landscapes, portraits and scenes of everyday life. Zoom into the paintings, read their stories and follow related art tours.
Paintings in this selection
108 artworks. Open a painting to read its story and explore its details.
Arkhip KuindzhiAfter the Rain
1879
Andrei RublevThe Trinity
Probably 1422–1427
Alexey VenetsianovThe Threshing Floor
1822–1823
Pavel FedotovBreakfast of an Aristocrat
1849–1850
Nikolai GePeter I Interrogating Tsarevich Alexei at Peterhof
1871
Vasily PolenovGrandmother’s Garden
1878
Konstantin KorovinIn a Boat
1888
Vasily MaximovAll in the Past
1889
Victor Borisov-MusatovThe Pond
1902–1903
Nikolai YaroshenkoLife Everywhere
1888
Nikolai Bogdanov-BelskyAt the School Door
1897
Grigory MyasoedovThe Zemstvo Dines
1872
Vasily PerovThe Last Tavern at the City Gates
1868
Vladimir MakovskyBank Collapse
1881
Vasily PolenovMoscow Courtyard
1878
Nikolai KasatkinOrphaned
1891
Abram ArkhipovIn the Evening
c. 1910
Nikolai DubovskoyCalm Before the Storm
1889–1890
Ilya RepinBarge Haulers on the Volga
1870–1873
Ilya RepinThey Did Not Expect Him
1884–1888
Ilya RepinReligious Procession in Kursk Province
1881–1883
Ilya RepinPortrait of Modest Mussorgsky
1881
Ilya RepinReply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
1880–1891
Ilya RepinIvan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581
1885This selection brings works from one artistic tradition together. Who could commission a portrait, how did an artist choose a subject, and who was expected to see it? The answers depend on each painting’s circumstances, explored on its individual page.
Artists
- Alexey Venetsianov
- Pavel Fedotov
- Nikolai Ge
- Vasily Polenov
- Arkhip Kuindzhi
- Konstantin Korovin
- Vasily Maximov
- Viktor Borisov-Musatov
- Andrei Rublev
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Nikolai Yaroshenko
- Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky
- Grigory Myasoedov
- Vasily Perov
- Vladimir Makovsky
- Nikolai Kasatkin
- Abram Arkhipov
- Nikolai Dubovskoy
- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
- Boris Kustodiev
- Mikhail Nesterov
- Valentin Serov
- Mikhail Vrubel
- Ilya Repin
- Vasily Surikov
- Ivan Kramskoy
- Viktor Vasnetsov
- Alexei Savrasov
- Ivan Shishkin
- Isaac Levitan
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Vasily Vereshchagin
- Alexei Bogolyubov
- Fyodor Vasilyev
- Sergei Vinogradov
- Lev Lagorio
- Karl Bryullov
- Filipp Malyavin
- Sergei Ivanov
- Apollinary Vasnetsov
- Isaak Brodsky
- Fyodor Bruni
- Nikolai Sapunov
- Konstantin Somov
- Mikhail Klodt
- Konstantin Makovsky
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