The Primorye Arts and Crafts Museum houses an untitled landscape by the artist Anastasia Egorova. She created this painting en plein air in the village Voznesenye, which is located in the Primorsky district of Arkhangelsk Oblast. This trip for Egorova was organized by the Presidential Grant Foundation within the framework of the ‘Literary Village’ project.
The village Voznesenye is located nine kilometers from Arkhangelsk. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Church of the Ascension was built there. The church (‘Ascension’ is ‘Voznesenye’ in Russian) gave its name to the entire settlement.
The picture features one of the village streets. Two-story houses are traditional in Pomor villages. They look as if they are illuminated by the sun, although the sky is cloudy. In the foreground, the artist painted the road, washed out due to rain with a large puddle across it. It is late summer: it often rains in the North during this season.
Anastasia Egorova graduated from Children’s Art School №1 in Arkhangelsk. One of her teachers was the famous Arkhangelsk landscape painter Vladimir Treshchev. In February 2021 the Primorye Arts and Crafts Museum hosted Egorova’s first solo exhibition ‘The Melodies of Native Land’. The exhibition included about 40 paintings: landscapes and portraits, images of ancient churches and views of Pomor villages. All these works created by the artist were watercolors.
Many of Anastasia Egorova’s paintings depict the village called Koyda, which is located in Mezensky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast. That is where the artist’s grandmothers came from, both on her father’s and mother’s side. Egorova herself lives in Arkhangelsk, but often visits her relatives in Koyda and paints local landscapes.
The village Voznesenye is located nine kilometers from Arkhangelsk. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Church of the Ascension was built there. The church (‘Ascension’ is ‘Voznesenye’ in Russian) gave its name to the entire settlement.
The picture features one of the village streets. Two-story houses are traditional in Pomor villages. They look as if they are illuminated by the sun, although the sky is cloudy. In the foreground, the artist painted the road, washed out due to rain with a large puddle across it. It is late summer: it often rains in the North during this season.
Anastasia Egorova graduated from Children’s Art School №1 in Arkhangelsk. One of her teachers was the famous Arkhangelsk landscape painter Vladimir Treshchev. In February 2021 the Primorye Arts and Crafts Museum hosted Egorova’s first solo exhibition ‘The Melodies of Native Land’. The exhibition included about 40 paintings: landscapes and portraits, images of ancient churches and views of Pomor villages. All these works created by the artist were watercolors.
Many of Anastasia Egorova’s paintings depict the village called Koyda, which is located in Mezensky District of Arkhangelsk Oblast. That is where the artist’s grandmothers came from, both on her father’s and mother’s side. Egorova herself lives in Arkhangelsk, but often visits her relatives in Koyda and paints local landscapes.
