Vassily Surikov was bom in Siberia. In 1868
he set out for
St.Peterburg on horseback to join the Academy of Arts. The journey took
him a year. On his way to St.Peterburg Vassily Surikov made frequent
stops in ancient towns of Russia. He was greatly impressed by Kazan and
Nizhni-Novgorod. But Moscow fascinated and enchanted him and it
determined the artist’s mode of life and way of work for years to come.
Vassily Surikov was the first Russia painter who turned to the past of
Russia for the subjects of his of art. Actually
he was the first historical
painter in Russia. Although a realistic painter, Surikov never becam a
narrative one. The painter tried to express the past against the background
of common people.
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