Poetry and Painting. Folklore in Pictures of Russian Artists

Anna Akhmatovа

I heard a voice. It called, consoling…
Ilya Glazunov. The Market of our Democracy.
The muse has left along narrow…
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Sunlight, Moonlight landscapes.

Konstantin Balmont

I entered this world to see the sun...
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Sea landscapes.

Alexander Blok

The horizon is all aflame, and its radiance is dear…
Vrubel's Demon.
Oh, how desperately I want to live...
Isaac Levitan. The Lake. Russia (Rus).
Scythians
Ilya Glazunov. Unknown Woman. Mysterious Lady (at the restaurant).
Those born in obscure times…
Ilya Glazunov. The Great Experiment.
Unknown Woman
Ilya Glazunov. Unknown Woman. Mysterious Lady (at the restaurant).
Ivan Kramskoy. Unknown Woman.
Worlds, years go by…
Kazimir Malevich. Black Square.

Sergey Esenin

Blossom white bird cherries scatter…
Alexey Savrasov. Spring landscapes.
The grove of golden trees has fallen silent…
Isaac Levitan. Golden Autumn.
The Night
Isaac Levitan. Twilight.
Sun's Golden Arc
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Red Sunset.
The Tears
Isaac Levitan. Above the Eternal Peace.

Afanasiy Fet

I have come to you with greetings…
Arkhip Kuindzhi. A Birch Grove.
Alexey Savrasov. The Rooks Have Come.
My face turned upwards to the sky…
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Ukrainian Night.

Zinaida Gippius

The abstract life calls out to me…
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Oaks.

Vyacheslav Ivanov

The Russian Mind
Ilya Repin. Unexpected Return.

Mikhail Lermontov

The Angel
Mikhail Vrubel. Demon and Angel with Tamara's Soul.
Moscow, Moscow! .. love you like a son…
Vasily Vereshchagin. In Defeated Moscow ("Arsonists" or "Shooting in the Kremlin").
The Dream
Vasily Vereshchagin. Defeated. Servise for the dead.

Thomas Moore

Those evening Bells - Translated from original by Ivan Kozlov.
Isaac Levitan. Evening Bells.

Nikolay Nekrasov

Thoughts at a Vestibule
Ilya Repin. Barge Haulers on the Volga.

Boris Pasternak

February. Get ink, shed tears.
Feodor Vasilyev. Thaw.

Alexander Pushkin

Awake, about Greece, awake…
Ivan Aivazovsky. On the Island of Crete.
To the Sea
Ivan Aivazovsky and Ilya Repin. Pushkin to the Sea (Pushkin's Farewell to the Black Sea).
Caucasus under me. One in height…
Ivan Aivazovsky. Mountain Village Gunib in Daghestan. View from the East.
In a Beauty's Album
Karl Brulloff. Portrait of Countess Yu. P. Samoilova and Her Ward Amacilia Pacini Leaving a Ball (Masquerade).
The latter days of fall are often cursed…
Isaac Levitan. Autumn Day. Sokolniki.
It’s time, my friend, it’s time...
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Lake Ladoga. On a Valaam Island.
The hills of Georgia are veiled by twilight…
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Mountain landscapes.
Storm-cloud
Feodor Vasilyev. Wet Meadow.
Isaac Levitan. The Lake. Russia (Rus).
A melancholy time! So charming to the eye!
Vasiliy Polenov. Golden autumn.

Dmitri Sadovnikov

From beyond the wooded island…
Vasily Surikov. Stepan Razin.

Vladimir Soloviev

If desires fly by like shadows…
Soloviev, Vladimir.
The Eye of Eternity…
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Night Grazing (Night-watch).
Soloviev, Vladimir.
My dear friend, do you not see…
Mikhail Vrubel. Muse.
Pan Mongolism
Soloviev, Vladimir.
Wingless soul, fastened to earth…
Vrubel's Demon.

Feodor Tiutchev

Just as the ocean cradles our earth's orb…
Ivan Aivazovsky. The Black Sea (On Black sea the storm starts to be played).
For naught - man's read of Nature's credo…
Isaac Levitan. Vladimirka Road.
In ocean waves there's melody…
Ivan Aivazovsky. The Ninth Wave.
Silentium!
Isaac Levitan. Quiet Abode.
A Vision
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Moonlight Night on Dneper.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Who's made of stone, who's made of mud…
Ivan Aivazovsky. Rainbow.

Maximilian Voloshin

Come out on rooftop. Bow down…
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Evening in Ukraine.
During nights when in the fog light…
Konstantin Bogaevsky. Last beams.
Arkhip Kuindzhi. Moonlight Night on Dneper.
The evening light
Konstantin Bogaevsky. Cloud.
Koktebel
Ivan Aivazovsky. The Sea. Koktebel.
Odysseus in Cimmeria
Konstantin Bogaevsky. Tropical landscape.
Wormwood
Konstantin Bogaevsky. Star the Wormwood.

Folk tales

Baba-Yaga and Puny - Russian Fairy Tale
Victor Vasnetsov. Baba Yaga.
The Prophetic Dream - Russian Fairy Tale
Victor Vasnetsov. The Magic Carpet (Flying Сarpet).
Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf - Russian Fairy Tale
Victor Vasnetsov. Ivan Tsarevich Riding the Grey Wolf.
Sivka-Burka - The contents of a fairy tale
Victor Vasnetsov. Chestnut-grey (Sivka-Burka).
The Tale of the Dead (Sleeping) Princess and the Seven Knights - Alexander Pushkin (Fairy Tale in verses)
Victor Vasnetsov. Sleeping Tsarevna.
The Sleeping Beauty in The Wood - Charles Perrault (Fairy Tale)
Victor Vasnetsov. Sleeping Tsarevna.
Marya Morevna - Russian Fairy Tale
Victor Vasnetsov. Kashchei the Immortal (Koshchei the Deathless).
Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka - Russian Fairy Tale
Victor Vasnetsov. Alionushka.
Snowmaiden - Russian Fairy Tale
Victor Vasnetsov. Snow Maiden (Snegurochka).
The Frog Tsarevna - Russian Fairy Tale
Victor Vasnetsov. The Frog Tsarevna.
The Unsmiling Tsarevna (Nesmeyana) - The contents of a Russian Fairy Tale
Victor Vasnetsov. The Unsmiling Tsarevna (Nesmeyana).

Legends, myths

Sadko. - Russian Legend
Ilya Repin. Sadko.