All about the people, art and literature from Russian history.
Illarion Pryanishnikov - Before the Wedding, Waiting for the Best Man, 1880’s
Konstantin Makovsky, False Dmitry’s Agents Murdering Feodor Godunov and his Mother (1862).
Ilya Repin, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1891). Alexander III paid 35,000 rubles for the artwork; the greatest sum ever paid for a Russian painting at the time.
Konstantin Makovsky, The transfer of the sacred carpet from Mecca to Cairo (1876).
