Throughout his creative life Nikolay Feshin showed great interest in ethnography. The artist was interested in pagan customs and primordial folk rites, which served as a spiritual memory for a

Throughout his creative life Nikolay Feshin showed great interest in ethnography. The artist was interested in pagan customs and primordial folk rites, which served as a spiritual memory for a
The portrait of Tamara Popova, Feshin’s student at the Kazan Art School, stands in the series of female images of 1917, in which the tendencies towards sophistication, mannerism, “Mademoiselle Girmond”,
The artist always treated his father with deep respect. Ivan Feshin is depicted sitting on the armrest of a massive chair, on it – a sheepskin coat, which seems not
Sapozhnikova played an important role in the Kazan period of Feshin’s life, being not only his pupil, patron, but also a friend. In the excellent workshop of Nadezhda Mikhaylovna the
“Cabbage” – the final competitive work of Nikolai Feshin, after writing which in 1909 he officially received the title of artist. The plot of the canvas was a daily scene
A clean room filled with light and air. A large table covered with white cloth is strewn with children’s toys, sweets, fruits. And right on the table, in the middle