“Entrance of a Log House” is one of the many paintings by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy depicting the life of peasants. A scene with a log house was familiar to the artist who was born into a petit-bourgeois family, with their everyday life similar to that of peasants.
Ivan Kramskoy was born in the town of Ostrogozhsk which was founded as a fortress. It was built not only by free Russians but also by Ukrainian Cossacks. Almost the entire territory of the Ostrogozhsky Uyezd was located on the boundary of Russia and Little Russia. The house where Ivan Kramskoy spent his childhood and youth was a typical Little Russian peasant house with a cane roof. The personality of the future artist was developed on the outskirts of the town. Throughout his life, the painter cherished the memory of the streets, neighboring houses, sounds, and colors of the world around him, and the fun he had with his friends.
The home of the Kramskoy family resembled this log house painted by the artist while he spent the summer with his wife and children outside of the damp and rainy St. Petersburg. If a viewer imagines entering this house, it is possible to envisage its rooms, furnishing, and household items that surrounded the talented young Vanya for many years. One of his early memories is a perfect association for this image of a log house.
Ivan Kramskoy was born in the town of Ostrogozhsk which was founded as a fortress. It was built not only by free Russians but also by Ukrainian Cossacks. Almost the entire territory of the Ostrogozhsky Uyezd was located on the boundary of Russia and Little Russia. The house where Ivan Kramskoy spent his childhood and youth was a typical Little Russian peasant house with a cane roof. The personality of the future artist was developed on the outskirts of the town. Throughout his life, the painter cherished the memory of the streets, neighboring houses, sounds, and colors of the world around him, and the fun he had with his friends.
The home of the Kramskoy family resembled this log house painted by the artist while he spent the summer with his wife and children outside of the damp and rainy St. Petersburg. If a viewer imagines entering this house, it is possible to envisage its rooms, furnishing, and household items that surrounded the talented young Vanya for many years. One of his early memories is a perfect association for this image of a log house.
