The heroes of this book are wonderful Russian artists: Kramskoy, Perov, Savrasov, Repin, Surikov, Yaroshenko, Polenov, Levitan, Serov…
The reader will learn about the famous “uprising of the fourteen” at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, about the “Kramskoy Commune,” about the emergence of the Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions, and about the history of the creation of many paintings—about all the things that made up one of the most glorious pages of Russian painting.