Ancient Days: Stories and Essays

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862-1942) belongs to the number of outstanding Russian artists of the late XIX - early XX centuries. His paintings "Dressman", "Vision of the Pattern of Bartholomew", "Great Hall" and many others are recognized as classic samples of domestic painting. A brilliant landscape and portraitist, Nesterov, the last years of his life devoted to work on memoirs, who opened a certain talent of the writer in the painter. The best of these, memories entered the present edition. Unusually alive, lungs and fascinating stories and first-person essays will tell the reader about the author"s childhood, his creative formation, the closest surroundings and uncommon meetings with famous contemporaries, among which representatives of several generations of artists (V. G. Perov, V. M. Vasnetsov, I. I. Levitan), actors and singers (A. R. Artemyev, J. Devino, F. I. Shalyapin), Writer M. Gorky and scientist I. P. Pavlov