#nikolai Yaroshenko

[moonlightbeamu]

Went through a phase of making famous paintings into desktop wallpapers a few years back

[mrdirtybear]

'Portrait of an Old Man' as painted by Russian painter Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846-1898). He painted over 100 paintings and filled 23 sketchbooks, including many portraits. His genre paintings depicted fruit, bathing suits, social struggle, torture, and other hardships common to the Russian Empire. During the last two decades of the 19th century, he was one of the leading Realist painters of in Eastern Europe.

[vintageshits]

soooo, look what just came in the mail yesterday!!!

as i said in some previous posts, i wanted to read c&p in english (my mother language is spanish, btw, so i’m sorry if, sometimes, my grammar is terrible) to be able to comment it with all the tumblr girlies that gather around the hashtag…

and so i began looking for it all around the internet and in libraries from my town, but all i was able to find were these ones:

and then an image came to my mind…the cover shown on the goodreads app.

so my journey trying to find that cover began…and it finished quite soon because I found it fastly on ebay.

when i held it in my hands I questioned myself: “why pay 500 mexican pesos for a worn-out, old book, instead of 321 mexican pesos for a brand new copy? just for the cover?” i wondered and wondered, and overthought about it until i found out why i was so keen on finding this edition…

this 1991 edition’s cover features the 1881 painting “a student” by russian artist nikolai yaroshenko.

which is one of two yaroshenko’s paintings that feature the intellectual, nihilist youth of russia back then. i’ll get to that later. this is the other painting of this pair:

this one is named, obvs, “the girl student”.

now, going back to the first painting. i found some interesting information about it. the first, and most appealing, thing is that it depicts a poor student, how do we know this? because he's wearing a rug over his coat, and only rich young men could afford warmer fur coats for the cold seasons.

so, back to why the hyper fixation with this cover...i think i like it because it was a great choice that is quite allusive to raskolnikov's background, and it somehow makes me feel that it depicts him as a person rather than as a criminal because, i mean, almost all of the other covers you can find on the internet, or at bookshops, almost always refer to the crime, like, there's always an axe, or blood, or even raskolnikov lifting the axe behind alyona ivanovna... but this much-mentioned cover only shows us a poor student from the second half of the 19th century, who may be struggling, who may be sleeping "in a closet", who may owe 3 months’ rent...just like raskolnikov at the very beginning of the novel.

and, of course, knowing the painting's historical context, knowing that it belongs to the russian realistic movement, helps me to build a better mental image of rodya lol.

oh, damn, am i verbose about a book cover?

[loiladadiani]

Nikolai Yaroshenko

“Life is everywhere” -1888

Yaroshenko is another one of the great Russian painters. He came from a military family and was destined for the military but continued studying painting. In his lifetime he was highly regarded by his peers.

I decided to post this painting of his because I find it so meaningful and touching. I have always felt very attracted to it, even when I did not know the name of the canvass or author.

The amount and depth of talent in the Russian arts never ceases to amaze me.

[portraituresque]

Nikolai Yaroshenko (Ukrainian, 1846-1898), Self-portrait, 1894

[periodicoirreverentes]

MUSEO IRREVERENTES: “Eruption of volcano” (1898)

Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846-1898)Óleo sobre lienzo71 cm x 134 cmMuseo de Bellas Artes de Kaluga (Kaluga, Rusia)

[lilymelancholie]

Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846-1898)

The Student, 1881

[permament-witzelsucht]

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko, Life Is Everywhere, 1888

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Nikolay Alexandrovich Yaroshenko - Funeral of Firstborn, 1893.

[imkeepinit]

Портрет неизвестной (1893) by Nikolay Yaroshenko

[chantssecrets]

The Prisoner

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko

[mscoyditch]

"Mount El'brus". 1894.

By Nikolai Yaroshenko. Russian. 1846-1898.

> random-brushstrokes

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie – Albert Bierstadt (detail) // Lofoten Island – Lev Lagorio // Rosenlaui – François Diday // Mount Elbrus in the Clouds – Nikolai Yaroshenko // Storm in the Mountains – Hermann Ottomar Herzog // Sierra Nevada – Albert Bierstadt // Rocky Mountain Landscape – Albert Bierstadt // Inkpot Gods – The Amazing Devil

[lahija-del-molinero]

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko, The Student (Студент)

[oldroze]

Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846 – 1898)

The Prisoner, 1878

[salantami]

Nikolai Yaroshenko Prisoner, 1878