Elmira Akhmerova

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Elmira Akhmerova
Nikolai Ge: Iconography
The Artist's Image in Self-portraits and Portraits by His Contemporaries

№3 2011 (32)

Vibrant and extraordinary, Nikolai Ge's personality fascinated his contemporaries. His image is captured in numerous portraits by two generations of artists - Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Repin, Grig-ory Myasoyedov, Nikolai Yaroshenko, as well as Leonid Pasternak, Viktor Borisov-Musatov, Nikolai Ulyanov, and Alexander Kurennoi. There are also Ge's self-portraits and photographs from different stages of his life. Many of his contemporaries left written descriptions of Ge's appearance - the list includes his friends and students, fellow artists, and the family of Leo Tol¬stoy, with whom the artist became especially close during the last ten years of his life.