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Ilya Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870–1873 Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, Morning in a Pine Forest, 1878. Peredvizhniki (Russian: Передви́жники, IPA: [pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ]), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved ...
8 paź 2024 · This guide contains information about the Russian colonial possessions in the America from 1733 to 1867. Russian settelemnts were in what are now California, Alaska, and two ports in Hawaii.
A 1773 map of northwestern America based on reports from Russian explorers. The earliest written accounts indicate that the Eurasian Russians were the first Europeans to reach Alaska. There is an unofficial assumption that Eurasian Slavic navigators reached the coast of Alaska long before the 18th century.
Since the 1820s, Russian presence in America began to experience constant pressure from other powers: from the south - the United States, from the northeast - Great Britain.
These rebel artists broke the classical canons of the Imperial Academy of Arts and became the forerunners of Russian avant-garde.
25 sty 2017 · Peredvizhniki was the first group of Russian artists to recognize that the everyday Russian citizen was a worthy subject of their attention. They set about creating portraits and genre paintings which evoked aspects of the worker or peasant's daily life, or their hopes, fears, and allegiances.
In addition, Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin’s depictions of the Russian forest and Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi’s dazzling images of moonlit nights in Ukraine celebrated the beauty of the diverse regions of the Russian Empire.
