Viktor Vasnetsov1848–1926Микула Селянинович
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Микула Селянинович” now? Collection: Ugra State Art Museum, Khanty-Mansiysk. Unknown.
Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Museum text in Russian
Исторический жанр. В центре композиции, на холме, изображен молодой мужчина. В руках мужчина удерживает соху, которую тянет гнедая лошадь. Мужчина богатырского телосложения, волосы светлые. На голове – венок из синих цветов. Одет в светлую рубаху, орнаментированную красным на рукавах и груди. Справа – два всадника в военных доспехах на гнедых лошадях, поднимающихся на холм. Слева, на холме, - вспаханная полоса земли; справа зелёная часть холма с цветами. Слева, на линии горизонта, - светлые домики. Небо голубое с белыми облаками. Надписи: Справа, внизу, надпись: «В. Васнецов 917».
Ugra State Art Museum
Details
- Accession number
- ЖВ-30
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Ugra State Art Museum — © Государственный художественный музей · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Viktor Vasnetsov
The whole life1915
A sketch of the “bogatyrka”, the future budenovka
In 1915 he took part in designing a military uniform for the Russian army’s victory parade in Berlin and Constantinople; he is credited with creating the “bogatyrka”, a hat reproducing the cone-shaped helmets of Kievan Rus’ — the future budenovka.
1917
He rejects the revolution but stays in Russia
He did not accept the October Revolution, calling himself a convinced monarchist “on the ancient Russian principles”; his nobility and ties with the old regime found no favour with the Bolsheviks, but he did not emigrate and went on living and working in Moscow.
after 1917
After the revolution: church paintings to the Tretyakov
After the October Revolution he advocated moving some of the religious paintings from churches to the Tretyakov Gallery; even before the revolution he had been a trustee of the gallery and gave a significant part of his income to the State Historical Museum, a large part of whose collection was acquired with his money.
1919
His son Boris dies
In 1919 his son Boris (1880–1919) died; after the revolution the artist’s family was scattered, which he took hard.
September 1919
Rumours that Vasnetsov has been shot
In September 1919 a Russian émigré newspaper reported that the Bolsheviks had “in all likelihood” killed the artist; the rumour reached Repin at Penaty, who anxiously asked the Soviet artists visiting him whether it was true that Vasnetsov had been shot.
