"Bogatyr of Russian painting": 145 years since the birth of the artist Boris Kustodiev
2023-03-07T07:07:25.628Z
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Boris Kustodiev is a portrait painter, illustrator and decorator. On his canvases, he often depicted Russian life, folk holidays and fairs. Due to spinal cord cancer, diagnosed when the artist was 31 years old, he moved on crutches, then was forced to transfer to a wheelchair. However, Kustodiev continued to paint life-affirming canvases full of bright colors. The most prominent figures of that time ordered his portraits to him: Nicholas II, Fyodor Chaliapin, future Nobel Prize winners Nikolai Semyonov and Pyotr Kapitsa. The central characters of the paintings were also Russian merchants, to whom a separate series of paintings is dedicated.
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