"Saint Nicholas of Myra saves three Innocents from Death"
by Ilya Repin
"Peasant Girls in the Forest"
by Alexei Korzukhin
"A Scene at the Railroad"
by Vasily Perow
Established in 1870, The Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions, commonly known as Peredvizhniki - meaning "Itinerants" or "Wanderers" - believed in representing subject-matter drawn from everyday life, with an accuracy and empathy which reflected their egalitarian social and political views. They worked across several types of painting, from landscape and portraiture to genre and historical painting, and by the close of the 19th century had become the most famous art movement in Russia. In 1923 the group was disbanded, but its impact was felt across many subsequent genres of Russian art, from Neo-Primitivism to Socialist Realism.
"The face and soul of man, the drama of life, the impressions of nature, its life and meaning, the spirit of history—these are our themes." - Ilya Repin
"Saint Nicholas of Myra saves three Innocents from Death"
by Ilya Repin
"Peasant Girls in the Forest"
by Alexei Korzukhin
"A Scene at the Railroad"
by Vasily Perow