Margarita Senyushchenkova

HERITAGE

Yelena Yadokhina
Nature of the Urals in Apollinary Vasnetsov's Oeuvre

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In the early 1890s, Apollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov began work on one of his major landscape cycles dedicated to the nature of the Middle and Southern Urals. To collect field material, the artist made two trips in 1890 and 1891. In the summer of 1890, at the invitation of his younger brother Arkady Mikhailovich Vasnetsov, he spent more than a month in the small factory town of Kushva in the Middle Urals. There he went on long journeys along the slopes of the nearby mountains, made pencil sketches and painted studies. The nature of the Urals reminded the artist of his native Vyatka land serving as a source of inspiration for many years.