#russian history art

[crazy-meringue]

The Tsar and his faithful oprichnik🖤

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817–1900), "Storm over Eupatoria" (details), 1861

[folklorespring]

Students of Mykhailo Boychuk Art Academy drawing their school that was hit by russian missile

[constanzarte]

Ilya Repin, Sadko

[eirene]

Opera In Peking, 1918 Alexander Evgenievich Yakovlev

[evilrobotdog]

Patron Saint of One Way Trips (2024)

24x36

Acrylic on Wood

[metamorphesque]

to the person in the bell jar...

Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath’ / Vilhelm Hammershøi / Nicole Krauss, from ‘The History of Love’ / Ramon Casas / Joy Harjo, from ‘Speaking Tree’ / D S (saatchiart) / Fyodor Dostoevsky, from ‘The Idiot’ / Aleardo Terzi / Sylvia Plath, from ‘The Bell Jar’

[lionofchaeronea]

Dusk, Mikhail Guzhavin, 1927

[la-belle-histoire]

Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Kochubey-Baryatinskaya, Christina Robertson. 1840s.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Wassily Kandinsky

Apocalyptic Horseman

1911

[vintage-russia]

Still from the movie "Дочь купца Башкирова|Merchant Bashkirov's daughter" (1913)

[crazy-meringue]

И каждый раз, когда Федя танцевал, он потом находил в своих покоях новые украшения

And every time Fedya danced, he later found new jewelry in his chambers

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817–1900), "Storm over Eupatoria" (details), 1861

[folklorespring]

House-museum of Polina Rayko in Oleshky, Ukraine. She started painting her house at the age of 69 after deaths of her daughter and husband, and son's imprisonment. Polina Rayko died in 2004. Her home was a national cultural monument of Ukraine and a tourist attraction. House was destroyed in June 2023 by flooding following the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam by russians.

[constanzarte]

Alexei Harlamoff, Summertime

[eirene]

Mermaids, 1885 Konstantin Egorovich Makovsky