100 images of Russian history

The acute gaze of the expert - the famous scientist, historian, teacher and brilliant narrator Evgeny Viktorovich Anisimov, the author of many books - is directed this time towards historical painting. Considering both the famous and less known picturesque canvases of this genre - the work of Repin, Surikov, Roerich, Perova, Avilov and others - the author immerses the reader into a historical context, reveals the background of the events of Russian history. At the same time, he does not at all encounter historical truth with the artistic, but allows the reader to see how they differ and how the images of our historical memory are created. The author so enthusiastically and fascinatingly talks about the details of the 16th century, costumes of the XVIII, ancient Russian “guests", tactics of fighting in the twentieth century and much more, that the“ affairs of the long -lasting days, the trend of antiquity of deep ”to no one, even a student, will not seem boring , covered with museum dust