April 15 as World Art Day, with the first celebration held in 2012.
The date was decided in honor of the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci .
By using the opportunity of the day , lets have a quick glance of Russian art ;
It is highly recomended to visit Tolstoys house in Moscow feels as if it still contains his spirit.
.Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.
His best known novels are War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).
If a foreigner knows one character from all Russian novels, there is a great chance it will be Anna Karenina.
Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828 but always worried about the lower classes, providing them with education, food, housing, and other forms of assistance.
His novels are considered classics of Russian literature, and his later philosophical works have inspired a wide variety of people.
The others great authors of Russian literatüre are ;
Fyodor Dostoyevski ( Crime and Punishment , The Brothers Karamazov )
The most popular of all Dostoevsky’s characters is Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment .
Alexsandr Pushkin the author of Eugene Onegin
Ivan Turgenev -the author of Fathers and Sons –
Anton Chekhov ( Uncle Vanya ,The Lady with the Dog are the well know ones )
Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the World . A must see place for art lovers .
Attached is a great piece from collection of Filipp Malyavin called ‘’Peasant Girl with Emrodery ‘’.
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