Nikolai Ge
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Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge was a Russian painter who was influential in the development of Russian symbolism. He was famous for his works on historical and religious subjects.
Self-portrait, 1892
Portrait of Nikolai Ge by Ilya Repin (1880)
Alexander Pushkin in the village of Mikhailovsky
Peter the Great Interrogating the Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, 1871
Peredvizhniki
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Peredvizhniki, often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into
Nikolai Ge
…to Saint Petersburg where he turned to Russian history for subject matter. He was one of the founders of the Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki). The painting Peter the Great Interrogates Tsarevich Alexey at Peterhof (1871) was a great success, but his next works did not satisfy him and he…
Newcomer at School by Emily Shanks
Ilya Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870–1873
Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, Morning in a Pine Forest, 1878
Konstantin Savitsky, Repairing the Railroad, 1874