Russian painting. Large collection

The album presents in detail all the styles and directions of our visual art from Andrei Rublev to the XXI century.
For the publication, almost two and a half thousand works of four hundred wonderful Russian artists were selected.
This is really the most complete collection.
It includes not only works from the central Russian museums, but also little-known masterpieces from regional art galleries and private collections.
Text and signatures to the illustrations are given in three languages ​​- Russian, English and German.
The book presents 2180 reproductions of paintings by Russian artists.

Russian landscape painting is one of the most vivid confirmations of the highest creative potential of the Russian people, his love and unity with nature, the ability to understand, absorb and exceed the best global achievements.
Burning at the end of the XVTII century, a national landscaped school after several generations, a number of beautiful artists and many real masterpieces appeared through several generations. The painters of the creative power of Aivazovsky and Shishkin, Savrasova and Levitan, Polenov and Kustodiyev world art gave rise to extremely rarely. In Russia, the XIX century worked a whole pleiad of such masters.
Other and could not be. The people in which the blood of Rublev and Dionysius, unknown architects and the builders of monasteries and the cathedrals could not not create a brilliant picturesque school, where a special place should be rightfully given by the landscape. The canvas of this genre is undoubtedly the most appreciated by our viewer. He sees a familiar stream in the spring forest in the spring forest, the native village was far behind the flower field, a broken river, on the shores of which grew ...
Edition in Russian, German and English