In the 1880s – 1890s, Makovsky often turned to Russian history in the 17th century, writing a whole series of lush “boyar feasts” and “weddings.” Due to the abundance of

The portrait was in the study of Prince Sufarokov-Elston’s house of Prince F. F. Yusupov in Bolshoy Kharitonievsky Pereulok in Moscow, reconstructed and decorated in the late 19th century by

The exceptional realist master of the everyday genre, Vladimir Makovsky, was often to witty action scenes in which “small” people took part, that is, ordinary people. Extremely sharp on the

In the foreground of the picture “Children Running from the Thunderstorm” are depicted the dark waters of a brook, through which a rural girl runs across the dilapidated bridge carrying

Contemporaries called Makovsky just as “brilliant Kostya,” and Emperor Alexander II considered him “his” artist and trusted him to paint portraits of the royal couple. Pictures of Konstantin Makovsky never

Undoubtedly, one of the best paintings in the early work of Makovsky can rightly be considered “Folk party during the carnival at the Admiralteyskaya Square in St. Petersburg” – a