Essay on the life and work of a Russian artist. Artist Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy was born in 1837 and died in 1887. It is not difficult to calculate that 1987 marked the 150th anniversary of his birth and the 100th anniversary of his death. His life was not very long - less than 50 years. But what is important is not how many years a person walks the earth, but how he walked his life’s path, what he managed to accomplish, what trace he left. And if a century later the memory of Kramskoy has not faded, it means that he did something important and good for people. What is the value of what he created? How did he become an artist, what paintings did he paint? And what kind of person was he, what did he love, what did he hate? In a word, what does the name tell us - Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy? For middle school age