North. Essays on Russian reality

Vasily Vasilievich Peppletchikov is one of the most outstanding participants in the artistic life of the pre -revolutionary era, which is a vivid representative of Russian culture of the late XIX - the beginning of the twentieth century. His abilities in the most diverse areas of fine art (he was engaged in painting and graphics), literature (wrote prose and poems), his energy and initiative in artistic life (he organized exhibitions and participated in the creation of new associations) is truly impressive. In addition, he was a passionate traveler, which laid out an imprint on all his work. One of the main topics in the work of British is the north. For the first time Vasily Vasilievich went there in 1902. What he saw made an indelible impression on him: "nature is harsh and majestic, full of terrible charms and unsolved secrets. The sun in this country shines all day, so you eventually lose the idea of ​​time. Not day, not night. Mirages seem in the vast ocean, antediluvian animals are lightly and mystical horror crawls into the soul. ” The subsequent years of the creative life of Bearing went under the sign of travel to the north. Shortly before his death, Vasily Vasilievich collected all his essays and united them into the book - "North. Essays on Russian reality "(1917), which he illustrated with his own drawings and reproductions of paintings. Among the many publications of the second half of the XIX - early XX centuries, dedicated to the Russian North, the book of Popplechikov is distinguished by the "documentary descriptions" he saw, almost without philosophical reasoning and conclusions