#kramskoi

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuev (1880) by Ivan Kramskoi. Hermitage Museum.

[adini-nikolaevna]

"The Empress Dowager received us in her palace and spoke of her sister with great affection. She was not beautiful, but she possessed the same innate dignity that made her sister everyone's favorite. She was courteous and pleasant, in contrast to the Empress’s refusal to receive us…”

— Consuelo Vanderbilt on Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia.

[la-catharsis]

Ivan Kramskoi - A Portrait of Sofia Kramskoya, the Painter's Wife (1866)

[paintingispoetry]

Ivan Kramskoi, Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, 1873

[ruscatontheroof]

“Mermaids" I. Kramskoi (1871)

"Русалки" И.Крамской (1871)

[theallart]

Ivan Kramskoi, "Girl with a Cat", 1882

[somanyhumanbeings]

Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy, Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1883)