Вечеринка петроградская

The real artistic life of the Russian Empire

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A jar of honey by Konstantin Makovsky, 1890.

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A praying young lady, Vasiiy Surikov, 1879

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A black woman by Ilya Repin, 1876

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Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery by Vasily Polenov, 1888.

Studies for Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

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A magic carpet by Victor Vasnetsov, 1920s

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A girl with a loose braid by Ivan Kramskoy, 1873.

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Portrait of Izabella Grunberg by Valentin Serov, 1910. Watercolor, whitewash and pencil on paper. 

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Nesterov, 1913

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The Smolny girls: a portrait of Ekaterina Khruschova and Ekaterina Khovanskaya by Dmitry Levitzky, 1773.

The Smolny Institute of Noble Maidens was founded in 1764 in Saint Petersburg by order of Catherine the Great. It became the first state educational institution for girls in Russia and one of the first in Europe.

It was a prestigious boarding school mainly for daughters of the nobility, where they studied subjects like languages, history, music, and etiquette, alongside general education.

The institute played an important role in the development of women’s education in Russia and remained influential until it closed after the Russian Revolution in 1919.

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"Spring. The big water" by Isaac Levitan, 1897.

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Get Thee Behind Me, Satan (1895)

by Ilya Repin

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Eugene Berman (Russian-American, 1899-1972) - Sunset (Medusa) (1945)

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"Calvary" by Nikolai Ge, 1893

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Ivan Kramskoi, Somnambula, 1871

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"Moonlit night" by Ivan Kramskoy, 1880.

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"The Sleeping Princess" by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1926. Based on a poem "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights" by Pushkin 1833.

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"Sadko" by Ilya Repin, 1876.

Sadko is a hero of Russian epic poems (bylinas). He is a poor but talented gusli player from Novgorod. About this painting Repin writes: Before Sadko pass beautiful maidens of all nations and all epochs; Greek maidens will pass, and the magnificent Italians of Veronese and Titian (the essence of all that art has created of the marvelous in this respect—the beauty of forms, the beauty of costumes) the simple fellow Sadko is beside himself with delight, but he firmly holds to the saint's instruction to choose the dark-haired maiden. Having chosen her as his wife, Sadko found himself the next morning on the bank of his native river Chernava. The idea expresses my own real position and, perhaps, the position of all Russian art as yet.