Arkhipov Abram

In the 1900s, Arkhipov created a peculiar series of peasant portraits – girls and women of the Nizhny Novgorod and Ryazan provinces. They are all in national bright clothes, with

In the portrait “Peasant woman in a green apron” is no longer a young but strong and healthy woman. Fervently and cheerfully she looks at the viewer, sparkling whiteness of

Abram Arkhipov was born in the village of Ryazan region and therefore the topic of the village can be traced in many of his works. “Arkhipovskiy” style is so unique

Radonica is a pagan spring festival for the dead; was carried out, according to the testimony of John Chrysostom, in Christian cemeteries already in antiquity, usually on Tuesday at the

In the late 90s of the nineteenth century, all of Russia took the road of industrialization. In this regard, many peasants were forced to go on a part-time job in

In the 90s, Arkhipov painted pictures mostly in the air, he brought his heroes from small stuffy workshops and rooms to the wide expanses of the Volga, to open, sun-drenched

In 1888, Arkhipov, along with his friends in the School, went on a journey along the Volga. They stopped in the villages, drew a lot, wrote etudes. There the idea

In the foreground in his painting “Village icon painter” AE Arkhipov depicts a poor village artist. He sits in front of the window and paints the icon. From the tiny

One of the most famous of his paintings “On the River Oka”, which shows a floating barge with tired, submerged peasants in their thoughts. The content of the picture grows

The image of the Russian woman-peasant woman occupied the artist from his student years. Among the early works of Arkhipov are such heartfelt, with a wonderful realistic power written small