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Moscow. View of the Kremlin

Creation period
1879
Dimensions
53,2x105,8 cm
Technique
oil on canvas
16
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Pyotr Vereshchagin
Moscow. View of the Kremlin
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Pyotr Vereshchagin painted Moscow. View of the Kremlin from Sofiyskaya Embankment in 1879 showing the renovated Kremlin as seen from the Kamenny (‘Stone’) Bridge. The Moskva river embankment had been recently reconstructed, and the Great Kremlin Palace erected. The new Kremlin ensemble was designed by Konstantin Ton with fire-resistive cast iron and steel structures. 

Vereshchagin painted a real-life view of the city using academic art techniques. He painstakingly reproduced architectural proportions and applied the law of perspective: the farther the object from the viewer, the smaller it appears. For distant objects, the dimensions had to be calculated with high precision.

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However the painter chose not to follow some Academy prescriptions. For example, he gave up neutral staffage – inclusion of small human and animal figures. Seeking to enliven the architectural landscape Vereshchagin started to paint scenes from everyday life, an approach that was quite innovative in the mid-19th century. 

Moreover, Vereshchagin moved the scene to Russia. Academy artists of the time used to paint ‘idealistic’ Italian views, but he found his native country’s landscapes just as beautiful. He preferred to depict the reality as he saw it: playing children, boatmen and fishermen, the hustle and bustle of crowded markets. It was those depictions of busy urban life against the background of stately architecture that made Pyotr Vereshchagin famous.

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Marketplace in Nizhny Novgorod, 1872. Source: wikipedia.org
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The artist lived and worked in St. Petersburg but traveled a lot, painting Moscow, Kiev, Sebastopol, Nizhny Novgorod, Crimea, and the Caucasus. He was also one of the first to plein air in the middle Urals. In 1870’s he made several oil sketches of scenes along the Chusovaya river and later on expanded them into full-size paintings.

Chusovaya has been known for its towering banks with large rocks, or ‘stones’ as the locals called them. In her book about Vereshchagin’s artwork, Irina Golitsyna specifically mentions his studies Stone Ostryak, Stone Yermak, and Stone Vysoky pointing out that those works “evidence the artist”s aspiration to paint true to life, represent reality with rigor and precision”, and not just to produce eye-catching compositions in the Academy style.

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Moscow. View of the Kremlin

Creation period
1879
Dimensions
53,2x105,8 cm
Technique
oil on canvas
16
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