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Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy (Russian: Фёдор Петро́вич Толстой; 21 February 1783 – 25 April 1873) was a Russian artist who served as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years (1828–1868). His works – wax-reliefs, watercolours, medallions, and silhouettes – are distinguished by a cool ...
What Is Art? (Russian: Что такое искусство?Chto takoye iskusstvo?) is a book by Leo Tolstoy.It was completed in Russian in 1897 but first published in English in 1898 due to difficulties with the Russian censors.
Portrait Person Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900) seascape and landscape painter, portraitist The Ninth Wave, 1850 Storm, 1886 Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships, 1892 Fyodor Alekseyev (1753–1824) cityscape and landscape painter Red Square in Moscow, 1801 The Foundling Hospital in Moscow The view of Nikolaev Sara Alexandri (1913–1993) still life and landscape painter. Nikolay Anokhin ...
Later Bulgakov, Tolstoy and the artist ND Bartram, founder of the Museum of Toys, were able to secure against numerous applicants a mansion in 11 Prechistenka, Moscow which became the location for the Tolstoy museum. Bulgakov also put great efforts into creating a "steel room" for the Archives of Tolstoy.
Four of the seven chapters of the book contain an assessment of Tolstoy the artist, in which Merezhovsky provides a detailed appraisal of the writer's art. Merezhovsky defines Tolstoy's main artistic technique as a transition "from visible to invisible, from external to internal, from physical to spiritual" or at the very least, "instinctual". [7]
In a letter to the artist Nikolai Ge, who presented a painting at the same exhibition entitled Christ praying in Gethsemane, Tolstoy wrote, comparing this canvas to Repin's painting (the letter is dated 21 April 1889): "A striking illustration of what art is, at the present exhibition: a your painting and Repin's. In R[epin's] it is represented ...
The 19th-century British poet and critic Matthew Arnold opined that "A novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life." [2] Isaac Babel said that "if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy." [2] Later novelists continued to appreciate Tolstoy's art, but sometimes also expressed criticism.
Fyodor Tolstoy (artist) Ilya Tolstoy; Ilya Tolstoy (colonel) Ivan Matveyevich Tolstoy; Leo Tolstoy; Lev Lvovich Tolstoy; Nikolai Tolstoy; Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy;
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