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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 ...
25 sty 2017 · The Peredvizhniki artists were perhaps best-known for their landscapes, paintings of archetypal Russian settings such as pine forests, wheat fields, and water meadows, which depicted their subject-matter with near photographic accuracy.
The first Peredvizhniki exhibition opened in St. Petersburg in November 1871 and then traveled to Moscow in early 1872. It was met with immediate acclaim by powerful critics such as Vladimir Vasilevich Stasov, who proclaimed it the dawn of a new day for Russian art.
13 gru 2014 · The Map of Carpatho-Rusyn Settlement by Paul R. Magocsi distills evidence from a number of sources to illustrate which villages had been considered Rusyn (linguistically and/or ethnically) at one time in history, only to become Slovak-identified in the late-19th/early-20th centuries. (See map segment.)
Russians in Wisconsin. In 1920, Russian immigrants constituted about 5 percent of the foreign population in Wisconsin. By 1950, nine to ten thousand Russian immigrants had settled in Wisconsin. The first Russians to come were Jewish: a group arrived in Milwaukee on October 13, 1881.
11 sie 2019 · The Volga Germans: In Russia and the Americas, from 1763 to the Present (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977): 216. To submit additional information or corrections for this page, please contact the Webmaster. HISTORY The Volga Germans in Wisconsin lived primarily in urban areas.
13 mar 2019 · For all the things Wisconsin is known for, “eyewitness accounts of Russian history” may not top the list. But as it turns out, the Library and Archives division of the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) maintains …
