Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (1831-1894) is an outstanding Russian artist who made a huge contribution to the development of realistic painting, as well as portrait and landscape genres. The master’s paintings are created with amazing sincerity, in a marvelous color scheme and are imbued with deep spirituality. “In my opinion, he was one of the great artists who made an era in art,” the writer Leo Tolstoy wrote about his friend.