Tanais Gallery
Vasily Perov. "Troika". Apprentice Workmen Carrying Water.
1866. Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
In 1865, a year after he had returned from Paris, Perov completed the Last Journey, a painting with an intentionally uncomplicated subject matter clear to all and sundry. The
Troika, Perov’s most expressive work produced in 1866, is especially typical of his style, the diagonal ground, sky, and houses. The motion of the little tuggers too agile to harmonize with the burden they carry only accentuates the symbolically excruciating tone of the picture. The ethic tonality of the Troika is similar to
Dostoyevsky’s theme of the humiliated and insulted or the eternal reproach to the world of injustice and enmity expressed in his motif of ‘a child’s tear’.
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