The Primorye Arts and Crafts Museum presents Nikolay Sazonov’s landscape painting “The Banks of the Northern Dvina”. The artist painted it with oil and used a wood-fiber board, a material usually used in construction and cabinet making. This material is rather rarely used as a base for paintings. Artists usually prime it before starting work and only then apply oil brush strokes. The primer is needed to keep the oil from chipping off the surface when it dries.
The riverbanks, depicted by Sazonov, are overgrown with grass. The water is calm. The tops of trees, the sky and the clouds are reflected in the calm water. In the background, there is an edge of a dense forest.
The Northern Dvina is one of the major navigable rivers in the European North of Russia. It mostly flows through the territory of the Arkhangelsk region. People associate the origin of the river’s name ‘Dvina’ with the word ‘dvoinaya’ meaning ‘double’ in Russian: the river was formed from two other smaller rivers — the Sukhona and the Yuga. From the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the 18th century, the Northern Dvina was considered the only safe trade route that directly connected Russia with the Northern and Western Europe. Ships still sail along the Northern Dvina even nowadays. One of them is the oldest in Russia paddle steamer ‘N. V. Gogol’, which is over 100 years old.
Nikolay Sazonov was born in 1922 in the village of Oseredok in the Arkhangelsk region. In the village of Konetzgorye he finished seven classes at the peasant school and entered the Shenkur vocational technical school to become a cabinetmaker. Already during his studies, Sazonov was fond of painting. His works were sent to a competition in Moscow, and the budding artist received a diploma. When Nikolay Sazonov graduated, his teachers advised him to enter the Irkutsk Art School.
In addition to painting, Sazonov was fond of hunting and fishing. For many years, he led a club for young hunters and fishermen. Together with his students, he built a training base ‘Lapazhinka’, where teenagers learned to survive, get food and take care of their own safety in the woods.
The riverbanks, depicted by Sazonov, are overgrown with grass. The water is calm. The tops of trees, the sky and the clouds are reflected in the calm water. In the background, there is an edge of a dense forest.
The Northern Dvina is one of the major navigable rivers in the European North of Russia. It mostly flows through the territory of the Arkhangelsk region. People associate the origin of the river’s name ‘Dvina’ with the word ‘dvoinaya’ meaning ‘double’ in Russian: the river was formed from two other smaller rivers — the Sukhona and the Yuga. From the middle of the 16th century to the beginning of the 18th century, the Northern Dvina was considered the only safe trade route that directly connected Russia with the Northern and Western Europe. Ships still sail along the Northern Dvina even nowadays. One of them is the oldest in Russia paddle steamer ‘N. V. Gogol’, which is over 100 years old.
Nikolay Sazonov was born in 1922 in the village of Oseredok in the Arkhangelsk region. In the village of Konetzgorye he finished seven classes at the peasant school and entered the Shenkur vocational technical school to become a cabinetmaker. Already during his studies, Sazonov was fond of painting. His works were sent to a competition in Moscow, and the budding artist received a diploma. When Nikolay Sazonov graduated, his teachers advised him to enter the Irkutsk Art School.
In addition to painting, Sazonov was fond of hunting and fishing. For many years, he led a club for young hunters and fishermen. Together with his students, he built a training base ‘Lapazhinka’, where teenagers learned to survive, get food and take care of their own safety in the woods.
