Viktor Vasnetsov1848–1926Ковер-самолет
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
- Accession number
- НГХМ-Ж-975
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia · fetched 8 days ago
- Image: Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum — © Нижегородский государственный художественный музей · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
Meanwhile, in the life of Viktor Vasnetsov
The whole life1878
He moves to Moscow, the city of his life’s work
In 1878, his resolve strengthened by Mamontov’s letter, he moved to Moscow, the city to which most of his creative life would be tied: he settled in a small flat in 3rd Ushakovsky Lane near Ostozhenka, walked the city for hours admiring the Kremlin and St Basil’s, and until 1885 the family changed rented flats in Moscow six times.
1878–1880
Mamontov’s commission for the Donetsk Railway
Repin brought him to the house of Savva Mamontov, who commissioned three fairy-tale pictures for the boardroom of the Donetsk Railway — “The Battle of the Russians with the Scythians”, “The Flying Carpet” and “The Three Princesses of the Underground Kingdom” (the princesses of gold, precious stones and coal); the princess Coal, a modest dark-haired girl in a black dress, was especially successful.
1878–1890 · Career
the Peredvizhniki
From 1878 he belonged to the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (the Peredvizhniki): he took part in its activity in 1878–1890 and exhibited with it until 1897; he was admitted for the realism and sharp social subjects of his genre paintings.
1879
His daughter Tatyana, the first of five children, is born
In 1879 his daughter Tatyana was born, later an artist and keeper of her father’s legacy; sons followed — Boris (1880), Alexei (1882), Mikhail (1884) and Vladimir (1889).
June 1880
His first visit to Mamontov’s Abramtsevo
In June 1880, with his brother Apollinary, he first came to Abramtsevo at Savva Mamontov’s invitation and joined the circle of Repin, Polenov, Serov and other artists, where he became one of the leaders of the national-romantic current.
