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Vasily Surikov

1848–1916 · Russian Empire · Realism

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (24 January 1848 – 19 March 1916) was a Russian Realist painter, active in Moscow during Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II's reigns, renowned for his large history pictures. Wikipedia

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Crowded, dramatic scenes from Russian history, vivid faces in the crowd, snow and rich old Russian costume.

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Works

• “Boyarina Morozova”, 1887 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Morning of the Execution of the Streltsy”, 1881 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Taking a Snow Town”, 1891 — Russian Museum
• “Suvorov Crossing the Alps in 1799”, 1899 — Russian Museum
• “Yermak's Conquest of Siberia”, 1895 — Russian Museum
• “Menshikov in Berezovo”, 1883 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Stepan Razin”, 1906 — Russian Museum
• “View of the monument to Peter I on Senate Square in St. Petersburg by Surikov”
• “Taking a snowy town”, 1891
• “Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon”, 1876
• “Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople”, 1876
• “Portrait of E. K. Deryagina”, 1879
• “Portrait of young Leonid Chernyshev”, 1890
• “Anastasia Dobrinskaya”, 1911 — Russian Museum
• “Belshazzar's Feast”, 1874 — Russian Museum
• “Self-Portrait”, 1913 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Portrait of Olga Wassiljewna Surikowa, the artist's daughter (Girl with Doll)”, 1888 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Портрет Iosif E. Krachkovsky”, 1884 — Donetsk Regional Museum of Art
• “The Three Musketeers”, 1909 — Surikov homestead museum
• “Pompey. Doric columns”, 1884 — Belarusian National Arts Museum
• “Portrait of governor Zamyatnin”, 1865
• “Portrait of mother”, 1894
• “Empress Anna Ioannovna in Peterhof Temple shoots deer”, 1900
• “Portrait of young lady”, 1906
• “Naples. Vesuvius.”, 1884
• “Colosseum”, 1884
• “First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea”, 1876
• “Road in Khotkovo”, 1884
• “Old soldier descending from the snowy mountain”, 1898
• “Portrait of Alexander Suvorov”, 1907
• “Razin”, 1909
• “Evening in Petersburg”, 1871
• “Under the rain by the coach to Black River”, 1871
• “Salome brings head of Saint John the Baptist to her mother Herodias”, 1872
• “Temptation of Christ”, 1872
• “A rich man and Lazarus”, 1873
• “Isba”, 1873
• “Siberian landscape. Torgoshyno.”, 1873
• “View of Kremlin at winter”, 1876
• “Portrait of A. S. Matveev in childhood”, 1881

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