Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko. Letters. Documentation. Contemporaries about the artist

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko is one of the brightest representatives of Russian artists -forwarders at the end of the 19th century, his brushes belong to numerous paintings. Before us is a multifaceted life of an artist who, having received a military education, later became an outstanding painter. The circle of his communication was very vast, as can be seen from his letters addressed to famous artists, publicists, scientists. According to L.N. Tolstoy, everyone loved him.
A large place in the work of N.A. Yaroshenko is occupied by portraits (the most famous of which are the "stoker", "prisoner", "everywhere life", "student", "pursuist"), as well as landscapes, mainly dedicated to the nature of the Caucasus.
The book presents the most famous works of N.A. Yaroshenko, his letters and evidence of contemporaries who come to life before us thanks to the painstaking work of I.V. Polenova, who devoted his life to the study of the work of Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko.
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