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Description of the painting by Viktor Vasnetsov "Baba Yaga"

Baba Yaga is a literary character in almost all Russian fairy tales, where she is assigned the role of a terrible villain kidnapping children. But for some reason, among artists, the theme of fairy tales did not take root, since until the end of the 19th century, painters prefer to portray something realistic or classical, but not fairy tales.
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Description of the painting by Ilya Glazunov “The Stranger”

Ilya Glazunov’s painting entitled “The Stranger” was created as an illustration to the poem of the same name by A. Blok, with whom they lived at the same time, and very often intersected under different circumstances. As can be seen in the picture, the mysterious girl that feast, but clearly feels superfluous at the event.
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Description of the painting Konstantin Korovin "Gurzuf"

Korovin Konstantin Alekseevich - Russian artist-impressionist. His painting “Gurzuf” belongs to the so-called “Crimean” period of creativity. In Gurzuf, Korovin had a summer house, where he loved to relax and paint. There are several paintings with the same name - "Gurzuf". One of them was created in 1917.
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Description of the painting by Vasily Tropinin "Guitarist"

Vasily Tropinin was engaged in painting portraits in a variety of genres, which could be completely different from each other. But most of the contemporaries of the artist and connoisseurs of his work are most fond of portraits in which the author depicts the image of a guitarist. One of these paintings will be discussed.
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