State Russian Museum. Almanac, No. 469, 2016. Seasons

The tireless faustrial thirst for knowledge, the spiritual transformation of natural observations - whether it is soil or hilly given, branches or stones - will make Ivanov a cult figure in the eyes of the artists of the end of the XIX - the beginning of the 20th century, semidding by the paths of postmingnessism and symbolism. But it will be much later, at the time of Vasily Surikov and Valentina Serov, Mikhail Vrubel and Mikhail Nesterova. At the same time, the poetic "Rijionist creativity of Alexey Venetzianova and his followers will be appreciated. The pure quiet melody, which sounds in the Venetian"s "sleeping shepherd" or "fishermen" of Gregory, will hear the retrospectivists from the Dyagilevsky "World of Art", impressionists from the Union of Russian artists who dreamed of finding a lost paradise in the naive wisdom of natural being