The history of Russian painting. Gift book bound in leather.

Today it is difficult to imagine a time when the history of Russian painting was considered an insignificant subject, not worth attention — and that was only 100 years ago! The more significant are the works of those great researchers who have opened the masterpieces of Russian art to the domestic and world public. Each of the authors of this book represents an entire epoch in the spiritual life of our country. Director of the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich; famous writer and art critic, curator of the Department of Fine Arts and Classical Antiquities of the Rumyantsev Museum Pavel Pavlovich Muratov; Russian Russian theater and art figure, one of the founders of the World of Art association, organizer of the "Russian Seasons" in Paris Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev, music and art critic, art historian, archivist, public figure Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov; Russian theater and art figure, one of the founders of the association "World of Art", organizer of the "Russian Seasons" in Paris, Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev; art historian Viktor Alexandrovich Nikolsky. So the proposed publication is not just a book that draws outstanding Russian artists and their creativity into the world, not just an interesting history of Russian painting. The story itself will speak to the modern reader in the presentation of celebrities who are so different from each other, but connected by one common passion - love for Russian culture, and one desire - to share this love with others.