Fair in Russia – it is always a holiday for all villagers. At fairs they bought and sold, communicated, played, had fun. Boris Kustodiyev depicted such a fair in his

Most often Kustodiev’s paintings exposed the joy and bitterness of the Russian people. But one of my favorite paintings by this author is The Portrait of Chaliapin, which depicts the

The artistic direction to which Kustodiev belonged in the 1910s can be called “neoclassicism”. It assumed an orientation to the great models of the past – taking into account the

Kustodiev writes with love the Russian nature, often including in it the motives of peasant labor. The plot “The Harvest” is simple in its plot, acquired from the catalog of

The pictures of Kustodiev, depicting the ideal scenes of Russian life, are full of the very narrative that struck him so much in Bruegel. The author of one of the

The same Kustodiyev type of woman repeats itself: a sweet, tender maiden-beauty, about whom in Russia they were said to be “written,” “sugar”. The face is full of the same

The canvases on the themes of the festive provincial life are distinguished by a special, only for Kustodiev, characteristic brightness, multicolor and life reliability of the smallest details. Folk festivals

One of the areas in which Kustodiev’s talent manifested itself clearly and distinctively is the portrait. Today, portraits of people well-known or dear to the artist are most interesting for

Russian artists of the beginning of the 20th century, without limiting themselves exclusively to painting, actively worked in the field of book design and book illustration. This is especially true