与此同时，在Nikolai Ge的生活中
完整生平1890
The press turns on “What Is Truth?”
A polemic breaks out in the Russian newspapers: most critics find that the picture does not match the meaning of the Gospel story, and most papers are sharply negative, though a number of critics, among them Daniil Mordovtsev, defend it. The campaign prepares public opinion for an official ban.
6 March 1890
“What Is Truth?” is banned
On 6 March 1890 K. P. Pobedonostsev reports to Alexander III that the painting is blasphemous, offensive to religious feeling and tendentious, and it is taken off the exhibition. An admirer of Ge then takes it around Europe and to America, but it makes little impression there.
1891
Death of his wife Anna Petrovna
His wife Anna Petrovna Zabela (1831–1891), whom he had married in 1856, dies.
1894
“The Crucifixion” removed from the Peredvizhniki exhibition
At the 22nd Peredvizhniki exhibition “The Crucifixion” becomes the centre of heated debate, and at the demand of Alexander III it is removed from the display. Showing it publicly in museums and exhibition halls is forbidden, so people have to view it in the private apartments of the artist's close friends in Moscow and St Petersburg.
1894年6月1日
Died
