“Artists said about Bryullov that he was a good mathematician, graduated from the university and attended lectures on mathematics in England. Mathematicians ...

“...He was small in stature, strong built, as if filled with lead: his face expressed efficiency, concern, like that of doctors or accountants, but did not h...

“...No matter what he strived for, no matter what he was looking for, fate allowed him to reach the end of his aspirations, and at the very end it cut off th...

“Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, once walking around a traveling exhibition, said: “Why are you all scolding Volkov, don’t you like him? He’s like a man: his voice ...

“The eighties should have had their spokesman in landscape, just as they had him in literature in the person of Chekhov. The shattered hopes of the advanced ...

“...I associate memories of Kasatkin with memories of my school life at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, since under Kasatkin I ent...