Probably everyone had such a desire, when sitting in a cozy apartment or a house without getting up from his chair wants to find oneself on some fabulous forest glade, or under beautiful birch tree by the brook. Where is the sun, caressing rays of his poured different colors of the rainbow through the rustling [...]

Vasnetsov clearly saw all the futility of their quest and gave the first authentic Russian-built modern times in Abramtsevo church, designed in Novgorod and Pskov forms. In those days it seemed a whole revelation. Vasnetsov, thus not only inspiration for all subsequent searchers Ancient Russia in the painting, but also the true father of the [...]

Returning mentally to all Russian art in the first half of the xix century as a whole, we notice in all its various manifestations in common. Most of the artists of this time looking at life mostly heroic beautiful and poetic. This commitment was a peculiar form of protest directed against the ugliest forms of [...]