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Looking at "Hunters at Rest" by Vasily Perov, modern viewer hardly notices that the picture depicts the same nonsense as in the hunting bikes, which are "poisoned" by one of the characters
Painting "Hunters at Rest"
Oil on canvas, 119 x 183 cm
Year of creation: 1871
Now it is kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Two author's copies of the painting are in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and in the Nikolaev Regional Art Museum named after V.V. Vereshchagin in Ukraine
“What a delight! Of course, to explain - so will the Germans understand, but after all, they, like us, will not understand that this is a Russian liar and that he is lying in Russian. After all, we almost hear and know what he is talking about, we know the whole turn of his lies, his style, his feelings, ”Fyodor Dostoevsky praised the picture, admiring the expressiveness and reliability of the types. However, the scene of the rest of the three comrades is not at all true in detail. Characters mishandle weapons, and their equipment and loot are different types hunting. It seems that the painter chose a topic in which he understood little.
In fact, Perov was well versed in hunting. The artist went to the beast, as his first biographer Nikolai Sobko put it, “at all seasons and tirelessly,” and later even shared his experience in essays for the magazine “Nature and Okhota”, which was published by naturalist Leonid Sabaneev. Ultimately, his passion for hunting cost the artist his life: because of a cold caught in the forest, Perov developed consumption, from which he died before he was 50 years old.
And Perov created "Hunters at a Halt" as an anecdote picture, so that the understanding viewer would laugh at it no less than at absolutely utterly cheating hunting stories.
1. Skeptic.
The peasant, laughing at the master's story, was written from the doctor, amateur artist and writer Vasily Bessonov. Perov portrayed him as a commoner, emphasizing that hunting excitement, like this meal on the grass, unites nobles and their servants.
2. Beginner.
He listened so much to the narrator that he forgot to light a cigarette. Judging by the new sheepskin coat and expensive equipment that have not yet had time to wear out in the forests, the character has recently become interested in hunting. Perov wrote a gullible neophyte from the 26-year-old Nikolai Nagornov, in whose house his friends Kuvshinnikov and Bessonov usually gathered to go hunting together.
3. Brown hare. Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valentin Golovin noted: by the molt of the animal it is possible to determine: the action takes place in late autumn. It is strange that the carcass is not damaged: according to the rules of hunting a killed hare, it was necessary to chop off (poke with a dagger between the shoulder blades), otpazan (cut off the front paws) and fasten (insert into the saddle).
4. hazel grouse. The forest bird could not be killed in the same hunt as the brown hare, an inhabitant of the fields.
5. Lies. A friend, a police doctor Dmitry Kuvshinnikov, posed as the landowner-narrator for Perov. In the 1880s and 1890s, the doctor, together with his wife Sophia, organized a literary and art salon in his house. The Kuvshinnikovs and landscape painter Isaac Levitan, with whom Sophia cheated on her husband, became the prototypes of the heroes of Chekhov's story "The Jumping Girl".
6. Boots. The beginner's shoes, as Professor Golovin noted, also betray the character's inexperience: it was very inconvenient to hunt on such high heels.
7. Binoculars. The narrator has binoculars of the old model, the first half of the XIX century, which indicates a solid hunting experience.
8. Horn. Used on hound hunting to gather hounds in a pack, but there is no sign of a pack of hounds. The only dog, according to various versions, is either a greyhound or a setter - a cop. On hound hunting, guns are not needed, as the dog takes the game. And on a rifle you don't need a horn.
9. Shotguns. An experienced hunter, so as not to clog the bore, will never put the muzzle of the rifle on the ground. Especially if this is a first-class, expensive weapon of the English company "Anfield", as here.
Artist
Vasily Perov
1834
- was born on January 2 (New Style) in Tobolsk. The artist was the illegitimate son of Baron Gregory Kridener, who served there as the provincial prosecutor.
1841
- for the beautiful handwriting received from the teacher the nickname Perov, which became a surname.
1853–1862
- A student of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
1861
- painted pictures "Rural procession at Easter" and "Sermon in the village".
1862–1864
- visited Germany and France.
1862–1869
- was married to Elena Shains, three children were born in marriage, but only his son Vladimir lived to come of age.
1866
- created the "Troika" and "The arrival of the governess in the merchant's house."
1870–1877
- was a member of the Association of Traveling Exhibitions.
1872
- married again, to Elizaveta Druganova.
1882
- died of consumption in Kuzminki (now a district of Moscow).
Photo: Fine Art Images / Legion-media
Perov painted the painting Hunters at a Rest in 1871. In this work, the artist depicted three hunters resting at a halt after a successful hunt. The artist Perov must admit and was himself a passionate lover of hunting.
More than once in his life the artist saw such scenes, because he himself was a participant in all sorts of funny tales, gossip and unprecedented stories about hunting with his fellow hunters after a difficult but interesting hunt. Display a similar scene on canvas, show different characters actors, without any bluntness, one might even say so, a topic close to the spirit of the common people.
As a result, there are three hunters with prey in the picture, not two or four, but three, in general, the holy trinity against the background of an evening, somewhat dull landscape, birds are still flying in the cloudy sky, a slight breeze is felt, clouds are gathering.
The artist has carefully prescribed the texture of the still life objects, no doubt everyone looks without a hitch, there are hunting trophies, a neatly killed hare, partridges, hunting rifles, a horn with a net and other hunting paraphernalia necessary for hunting. But this is not the main thing in the picture, Perov's task in this work is still three hunters with their different characteristics.
The most pronounced figure in the painting Hunters at Rest is, of course, an elderly-looking hunter, passionately telling his companions about his explicit or not quite adventures on the hunt, a fragment from what he says approximately: it was already twice the size of the first one, then I successfully shot the first one.
The second comrade, that in the middle of middle years, also an experienced hunter listens with irony to an elderly hunter, scratches his ear, one might say the narrator clearly causes him a sarcastic grin with his hunting, regular and untrue story and he clearly does not trust him, but at the same time it is still interesting to listen he thinks.
The young hunter, who on the right will attentively and trustingly listen to the tales of the old hardened hunter, it is quite likely that he himself also wants to tell something about his hunt for the partridge, but the old man clearly does not give him a word to say.
The plot of the picture Hunters at the Halt turned out to be directly anecdotal, relative to other works of Perov. Contemporaries reacted differently to the work of the master, Saltykov-Shchedrin criticized the artist for the unnatural-looking faces of hunters, as if the actors were playing and not living hunters. And Stasov V.V., on the contrary, enthusiastically admired the picture, comparing it with the stories of the writer Turgenev.
Whatever it was, the people fell in love with the picture Hunters at the Halt, the hunters themselves are very enthusiastic about this work. Nowadays, copies of this painting are considered a gift standard for avid hunters. Therefore, in the house of a good hunter, a similar plot must be hung on the wall, and sometimes with other faces of the heroes of the picture. In the work of the artist Perov, this work and paintings: Golubyatnik, Rybolov and Pitselov are associated with a certain departure from the highly critical paintings of the 1860s.
Hunters at Rest (1871)
When I tell you my True Tales, I remind myself of a left hunter, and my friends - both distrustful, like the average, and listening, like the right one.
The picture is known to absolutely every inhabitant of our country. It is in textbooks, it is on the walls in many houses, even on candy wrappers. We know it by heart. And yet, I will tell you a couple of points that you may not know.
"To be completely an artist, you have to be a creator; and to be a creator, you need to study life, you need to educate your mind and heart, educate not by studying state models, but by vigilant observation and exercise in reproducing types and their inherent inclinations ... swept past you, without being reflected in you, as in a clean, correct mirror ... An artist must be a poet, a dreamer, and most importantly - a vigilant worker ... Whoever wants to be an artist must become a complete fanatic, living and feeding on one art and only art " ...
V.G.Perov "Our teachers"
Vasily Grigorievich Perov was born on January 4 (December 23, old style) 1833 in Tobolsk, in the family of the provincial prosecutor Baron Grigory Karlovich Kridener. The boy was illegitimate, his parents got married later. All his younger brothers received the titles of barons and the surname Kridener, Perov received the surname of his godfather - Vasiliev, later the artist changed it to the nickname "Perov", given in childhood for his success in calligraphy. The boy's real father, Baron G.K. Kridener, was a liberal, educated man, played the piano and violin, knew several foreign languages and even wrote poetry. The latter was the reason that some time after the birth of Vasily, the baron was dismissed for free-thinking rhymes.
Let's get back to the picture now.
And Perov wrote it not alone, but in tandem with another famous artist- Alexei Savrasov. They taught together at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. We do not know the share of Savrsov, but there is a curious moment.
Perov wrote two versions of "Hunters at Rest": the first is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, and the second - in the Russian Museum. Perov wrote the second version a few years later. He turned to Savrasov again?
And the hunters everything turns out real people! Friends of the artist.
Doctor Dmitry Kuvshinnikov was depicted in his famous painting "Hunters at a Halt" by artist V.G. Perov. The hunter-storyteller on the left is him. Two other characters in the picture were painted from Kuvshinnikov's friends: the skeptic hunter is a doctor and amateur artist Vasily Vladimirovich Bessonov, and the young hunter is Nikolai Mikhailovich Nagornov, a relative of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (he was married to his niece, Varvara Valerianovna Tolstoy).
http://proekt-wms.narod.ru/moscow/2_4.htm
The viewers really like the picture, but some celebrities criticized it sharply.
They didn't like unnaturally exaggerated emotions.
ME Saltykov-Shchedrin criticized the picture for the lack of spontaneity: “As if when the picture was shown there was some actor who was instructed by the role to speak aside: this liar, and this gullible, inviting the viewer not to believe the liar hunter and have fun with gullibility novice hunter ".
The landscape in the picture is written much better; compositionally, it is closely related to the characters. There is something alarming in the surrounding nature - in the piercing wind, in the dead autumn grass, in the gloomy horizon. The sky is overcast, a thunderstorm cannot be avoided.
The most prominent figure is, of course, the elderly hunter on the left, passionately telling his comrades about his hunting adventures. The second hunter, in the middle, middle-aged, listens with a grin to an elderly hunter, scratches his ear, one might say, the narrator clearly makes him laugh with another story, and he clearly does not trust him, but at the same time it is interesting to listen to him. The young hunter, on the right, attentively and trustingly listens to the tales of the old hunter, it is likely that he himself also wants to tell something about his hunt, but the old man clearly does not give him a word to say.
I'm not a hunter, but my friend is a hunter, he told me that there are many inaccuracies in the picture.
The dog in the background, apparently a setter, and with the cops they don't hunt hares. Black grouse lying right, this is his prey, however, there is a horn in the picture, and it is used only when hunting with hounds. In addition, when the grouse hunting is open (and, by the way, it is found in the forest, not in the field), the hare hunting is closed. But whether hunting was opened in that century, I do not know. He also said that a self-respecting hunter would not throw a gun like that - the barrel would clog up, the hammer would break. These are the grumpers from the modern hunter.
I found such a story about a painting in the vastness of the network, only I lost the link. But read:
"Hunters at Rest" is one of the most popular paintings by the outstanding artist of the second half of the 19th century, Vasily Grigorievich Perov.
Until recently, it was believed that the artist painted two versions of this painting. But there is an assumption that the author created three paintings "Hunters at Rest". And one of them was kept in the Nikolaev Museum for 22 years as a copy ...
The most famous picture Vasily Perova in the century before last made a splash at the exhibition in Europe together with Repin's "Barge Haulers on the Volga". After the exhibition, the canvas was bought by the famous collector Tretyakov, the artist wrote the second author's version for the tsar, and now it is in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Sensation - the third version of "hunters" was found in the Nikolaev regional museum.
The canvas was examined for two years. The picture was painted without a sketch in pencil, but immediately with paints - it was in this manner that Vasily Perov worked. "Nikolaevskaya" painting of the same size and painted in the same year 1871 as the work, which is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery. And the version that Perov wrote for the tsar and which is kept in St. Petersburg was created later - in 1877 - and is smaller in area.
The Kiev restorers presented the research results to the Tretyakov Gallery. They agreed with the findings of experts from the National Academy of Arts; authorship of Perov is still pending.
It still remains a mystery who the artist Perov really was? The critical realist, itinerant V.G. Perov was a friend of almost all the outstanding painters of his time.
He had some eccentricities, which, perhaps, explain how Perov could paint such a canvas as "Hunters at Rest" in the 19th century. The picture is directly packed with encrypted messages, mathematical formulas and prophetic predictions.
Many years ago, the staff of the Russian Museum noticed that by the end of the working day, women-caretakers gathered in Perov's hall, not far from the "Hunters at Rest". The work was outweighed several times, but the result was the same. Both the caretakers and visitors to the museum, and excursions most of all grouped together and spent time at this picture.
Some studies have been carried out that have revealed a real anomaly. The air temperature in this painting was always 2.6 - 2.8 degrees higher than in the other halls. The mechanical clock of Perov's painting slowed down, and the quartz movements began to break the rhythm and even stopped. The picture had a strange effect on people too.
The canvas was exposed to infrared radiation and X-rays. The picture shows three men who very much resemble someone. The photo was printed and ... the Yalta conference was born! On the left, slightly leaning forward, sat Joseph Stalin and convincingly argued something. Opposite him, with his hands on his paralyzed legs, sat Roosevelt, and between them, looking skeptically at Stalin, lay down Winston Churchill. Having superimposed a transparent map of Europe on the picture, the experts were amazed. Stalin's hands accurately indicate the line of opening of the second front, while his right hand rests on the coast of Normandy, where the allied landing took place in a little over seventy years.
If we calculate the percentage of the area occupied by three figures of hunters to the total area of the painting, then we get an exact figure as a percentage of the total share of the three countries of England, America and Russia in the production of weapons in relation to the rest of the world in 1945! The killed game in the right corner of the picture, outlined in one line, strangely resembles the outlines of defeated Japan. And if we connect the eyes of three hunters with the same line, we get the exact geometry of the Bermuda Triangle.
Perov ideally positioned his characters in the parts of the world in relation to the gun, which lies slightly to the right and below the center of the picture and signifies the equator. This is the first thing that catches your eye ...
Vasily Perov. Hunters at rest.
1871. Oil on canvas.
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Perov was the recognized leader of the Moscow school of painting, which in the 60s of the 19th century was the avant-garde of Russian realistic art. In the circles of the intelligentsia, he was even called "the Pope of Moscow", thereby emphasizing that just as the Pope dictates laws from the Vatican to the entire Catholic world, Perov from Moscow dictated laws to the entire Russian artistic world.
In 1870, the painter received his professorship. Among the genre works exhibited by him at the first traveling exhibition, the canvas "Hunters at Rest" had the greatest success.
In the 60s, Perov wrote works where he showed the acute contradictions of contemporary life. The viewer knows his canvases "Tea Party in Mytishchi", "Seeing Off the Dead", and "Troika".
But in the 70s, the direction of his genre works changed. The collapse of the ideals of the 1860s, the deep disappointment experienced by a significant part of the progressive intelligentsia, did not escape Perov either. On the other hand, after the tragic death of almost the entire family - his wife and children from the epidemic in 1869-1870, he, apparently, began to look at life in a new way, began to turn to plots in which a simple, inconspicuous person became the main character , his hobbies and joys.
In the seventies, everyday life subjects predominate in Perov's work. Perov was a passionate hunter. At the end of his life, he even worked for the publisher Sabaneev's magazine "Nature and Hunting". In the 1870s, the artist creates a series of paintings dedicated to hunting and nature. It is sometimes inaccurately referred to as the "hunting series". In addition to Hunters at Halt, it includes Fisherman, Dovecote, Birds, Botanist and other paintings that represent typical types of Moscow inhabitants of that time.
This is what delighted V.V. Stasova: "A whole gallery of Russian people appeared here, living peacefully in different corners of Russia." And Sobko wrote about the "Birdman": "After all, this is exactly like an excerpt from the best and most talented that is in Turgenev's hunting sketches."
The main thing in "Hunters at Rest" is the psychology of the characters, and in its pure form, outside of any events. A group of hunters is depicted in the center of the picture against the background of autumn fields. It can be seen that they are pleased with themselves, as they can already boast of their trophies.
An elderly hunter (apparently from the poor nobility) talks about his incredible hunting successes, like Baron Munchausen. His eyes are burning, he is tense, it is noticeable that he puts his whole soul into his story, most likely, exaggerating what happened.
The second, a young hunter dressed with a needle, listens attentively, believing his every word. trustingly, with great interest he listens to him - from the expression on his face it can be assumed that he sincerely believes the narrator
Pulling his hat to one side, the peasant reclining in the center is disbelievingly scratching behind his ear and grinning. Embodying the sober popular mind, the peasant does not appreciate the master's tales in a pot and internally laughs at the gullibility of another hunter. He seems to be preoccupied with his own thoughts and has little interest in the story being told.
The picture is also interesting for the combination of different painting genres: everyday scenes, landscape and even still life. Perov writes out in detail hunting equipment: guns, a horn, a shot hare, ducks. The landscape is full of poetry of Russian autumn.
When we look at this canvas by Perov, we get the impression of calmness and carelessness.However, there is something alarming in the surrounding nature: a piercing wind is blowing, the grass is swaying, birds are circling in the sky. The branches at the feet of the second hunter look defenselessly naked. The sky is overcast, perhaps a thunderstorm is approaching. Nature is opposed to hunters at a halt with their easy postures, things calmly laid out on the ground. This picture brilliantly combines anecdotal plot and dramatic landscape.
Contemporaries reacted to this picture in different ways. V.V. Stasov admired the painting. Saltykov-Shchedrin was more strict, criticizing the picture for its lack of immediacy. He wrote:
“It’s as if some actor is present when the picture is shown, who is instructed by the role to speak aside: this is a liar, and this one is gullible. Such an actor is the coachman lying near the hunters and as if inviting the viewer not to believe the liar to the hunter and to amuse himself with the gullibility of the novice hunter. The artistic truth should speak for itself, and not with the help of comments and interpretations. "
V.G. Perov painted two versions of the painting "Hunters at Rest": the first is kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the second - in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
In the work of Perov, this canvas played the role of a connecting link between the highly critical works of the 1860s and his so-called “ late genres". It retains echoes of the painter's recent satirical paintings, at the same time it marks a departure from some, sometimes unnecessary, rationality in the interpretation of images. Perov discovers in this picture a desire to be closer to a person, to penetrate his psychology, into the circle of his everyday interests.
"The wide audience knows and appreciates" Hunters at Rest ", which has become one of the most famous paintings of the State Tretyakov Gallery... The scene presented here, the very types of hunters are found in our everyday life. Numerous viewers of "Hunters at Rest" perceive this canvas with the genuine humor that the observant artist has put into it "(A. Zotov).
Hunters at Rest (1871)
When I tell you my True Tales, I remind myself of a left hunter, and my friends - both distrustful, like the average, and listening, like the right one.
The picture is known to absolutely every inhabitant of our country. It is in textbooks, it is on the walls in many houses, even on candy wrappers. We know it by heart. And yet, I will tell you a couple of points that you may not know.
"To be completely an artist, you have to be a creator; and to be a creator, you need to study life, you need to educate your mind and heart, educate not by studying state models, but by vigilant observation and exercise in reproducing types and their inherent inclinations ... swept past you, without being reflected in you, as in a clean, correct mirror ... An artist must be a poet, a dreamer, and most importantly - a vigilant worker ... Whoever wants to be an artist must become a complete fanatic, living and feeding on one art and only art " ...
V.G.Perov "Our teachers"
Vasily Grigorievich Perov was born on January 4 (December 23, old style) 1833 in Tobolsk, in the family of the provincial prosecutor Baron Grigory Karlovich Kridener. The boy was illegitimate, his parents got married later. All his younger brothers received the titles of barons and the surname Kridener, Perov received the surname of his godfather - Vasiliev, later the artist changed it to the nickname "Perov", given in childhood for his success in calligraphy. The boy's real father, Baron G.K. Kridener, was a liberal, educated man, played the piano and violin, knew several foreign languages and even wrote poetry. The latter was the reason that some time after the birth of Vasily, the baron was dismissed for free-thinking rhymes.
Let's get back to the picture now.
And Perov wrote it not alone, but in tandem with another famous artist - Alexei Savrasov. They taught together at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. We do not know the share of Savrsov, but there is a curious moment.
Perov wrote two versions of "Hunters at Rest": the first is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, and the second - in the Russian Museum. Perov wrote the second version a few years later. He turned to Savrasov again?
And the hunters all turn out to be real people! Friends of the artist.
Doctor Dmitry Kuvshinnikov was depicted in his famous painting "Hunters at a Halt" by artist V.G. Perov. The hunter-storyteller on the left is him. Two other characters in the picture were painted from Kuvshinnikov's friends: the skeptic hunter is a doctor and amateur artist Vasily Vladimirovich Bessonov, and the young hunter is Nikolai Mikhailovich Nagornov, a relative of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (he was married to his niece, Varvara Valerianovna Tolstoy).
http://proekt-wms.narod.ru/moscow/2_4.htm
The viewers really like the picture, but some celebrities criticized it sharply.
They didn't like unnaturally exaggerated emotions.
ME Saltykov-Shchedrin criticized the picture for the lack of spontaneity: “As if when the picture was shown there was some actor who was instructed by the role to speak aside: this liar, and this gullible, inviting the viewer not to believe the liar hunter and have fun with gullibility novice hunter ".
The landscape in the picture is written much better; compositionally, it is closely related to the characters. There is something alarming in the surrounding nature - in the piercing wind, in the dead autumn grass, in the gloomy horizon. The sky is overcast, a thunderstorm cannot be avoided.
The most prominent figure is, of course, the elderly hunter on the left, passionately telling his comrades about his hunting adventures. The second hunter, in the middle, middle-aged, listens with a grin to an elderly hunter, scratches his ear, one might say, the narrator clearly makes him laugh with another story, and he clearly does not trust him, but at the same time it is interesting to listen to him. The young hunter, on the right, attentively and trustingly listens to the tales of the old hunter, it is likely that he himself also wants to tell something about his hunt, but the old man clearly does not give him a word to say.
I'm not a hunter, but my friend is a hunter, he told me that there are many inaccuracies in the picture.
The dog in the background, apparently a setter, and with the cops they don't hunt hares. Black grouse lying right, this is his prey, however, there is a horn in the picture, and it is used only when hunting with hounds. In addition, when the grouse hunting is open (and, by the way, it is found in the forest, not in the field), the hare hunting is closed. But whether hunting was opened in that century, I do not know. He also said that a self-respecting hunter would not throw a gun like that - the barrel would clog up, the hammer would break. These are the grumpers from the modern hunter.
I found such a story about a painting in the vastness of the network, only I lost the link. But read:
"Hunters at Rest" is one of the most popular paintings by the outstanding artist of the second half of the 19th century, Vasily Grigorievich Perov.
Until recently, it was believed that the artist painted two versions of this painting. But there is an assumption that the author created three paintings "Hunters at Rest". And one of them was kept in the Nikolaev Museum for 22 years as a copy ...
The most famous painting by Vasily Perov in the century before last made a splash at the exhibition in Europe together with Repin's "Barge Haulers on the Volga". After the exhibition, the canvas was bought by the famous collector Tretyakov, the artist wrote the second author's version for the tsar, and now it is in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Sensation - the third version of "hunters" was found in the Nikolaev regional museum.
The canvas was examined for two years. The picture was painted without a sketch in pencil, but immediately with paints - it was in this manner that Vasily Perov worked. "Nikolaevskaya" painting of the same size and painted in the same year 1871 as the work, which is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery. And the version that Perov wrote for the tsar and which is kept in St. Petersburg was created later - in 1877 - and is smaller in area.
The Kiev restorers presented the research results to the Tretyakov Gallery. They agreed with the findings of experts from the National Academy of Arts; authorship of Perov is still pending.
It still remains a mystery who the artist Perov really was? The critical realist, itinerant V.G. Perov was a friend of almost all the outstanding painters of his time.
He had some eccentricities, which, perhaps, explain how Perov could paint such a canvas as "Hunters at Rest" in the 19th century. The picture is directly packed with encrypted messages, mathematical formulas and prophetic predictions.
Many years ago, the staff of the Russian Museum noticed that by the end of the working day, women-caretakers gathered in Perov's hall, not far from the "Hunters at Rest". The work was outweighed several times, but the result was the same. Both the caretakers and visitors to the museum, and excursions most of all grouped together and spent time at this picture.
Some studies have been carried out that have revealed a real anomaly. The air temperature in this painting was always 2.6 - 2.8 degrees higher than in the other halls. The mechanical clock of Perov's painting slowed down, and the quartz movements began to break the rhythm and even stopped. The picture had a strange effect on people too.
The canvas was exposed to infrared radiation and X-rays. The picture shows three men who very much resemble someone. The photo was printed and ... the Yalta conference was born! On the left, slightly leaning forward, sat Joseph Stalin and convincingly argued something. Opposite him, with his hands on his paralyzed legs, sat Roosevelt, and between them, looking skeptically at Stalin, lay down Winston Churchill. Having superimposed a transparent map of Europe on the picture, the experts were amazed. Stalin's hands accurately indicate the line of opening of the second front, while his right hand rests on the coast of Normandy, where the allied landing took place in a little over seventy years.
If we calculate the percentage of the area occupied by three figures of hunters to the total area of the painting, then we get an exact figure as a percentage of the total share of the three countries of England, America and Russia in the production of weapons in relation to the rest of the world in 1945! The killed game in the right corner of the picture, outlined in one line, strangely resembles the outlines of defeated Japan. And if we connect the eyes of three hunters with the same line, we get the exact geometry of the Bermuda Triangle.
Perov ideally positioned his characters in the parts of the world in relation to the gun, which lies slightly to the right and below the center of the picture and signifies the equator. This is the first thing that catches your eye ...
Here are the news about the picture that each of us knows from school ...
Addition
My post about Perov's painting "Hunters at Rest" deservedly took one of the leading places in the rating of my posts. It is clear that schoolchildren and students are forced to write abstracts about the painting! Tyts in googol - and he gives them my post! They are happy. Unlike my supposedly 500 supposedly friends. It is interesting and useful for them to read the lines of the old man ... So I will add a bit of that post.
Remember the main storyteller in the picture?
Dymov meant the doctor Dmitry Pavlovich Kuvshinnikov - a truly selfless physician and ascetic. Of course, he was not quiet and frightened. And the constant home parties did not bother him, he actively participated in them. Artistic bohemia respected Kuvshinnikov - suffice it to say that it was he, Dmitry Kuvshinnikov, who is depicted in Perov's famous painting "Hunters at Rest" as the main storyteller. Together with the other two, also real characters, they constantly went hunting:
So life is even more closely tied with different knots! Remember Chekhov's famous story "The Jumping Girl"? So Chekhov wrote a story about Kushinnikov's wife! Jumping Olga Ivanovna was actually called Sophia Petrovna Kuvshinnikova. Here is her portrait by artist Levitan:
I. Levitan "Portrait of Sophia Petrovna Kuvshinnikova", 1888
And she struck a gigantic scandal in Moscow! Many prominent people of that time stopped shaking hands with Anton Palych, refused a house - and this is almost a political death! They wrote letters to him, and Chekhov wrote absolutely boorish letters in response! Levitan wanted to challenge him to a duel. Chekhov's friend, actor Lensky, wrote him such a derogatory letter that Chekhov burned it, for the first time in his life he was ashamed to keep the letter in his archive. From all the acquaintances, hellish reproaches and swearing fell down. Anton Pavlovich answered them even more boorishly, denied himself with the words (literal quote): "My bouncing girl is pretty, but Sofya Petrovna is not so beautiful and young!"
Well, Levitan was almost Sophia's official lover, he is forgiven. They really had an affair and a joint summer on the Volga. Without a husband and strangers ... But the entire secular world did not respect and despise Chekhov until the end of Chekhov's life ... Didn't they know about the great Chekhov?
And in defense of Jumping (and read the story!):
Sofya Petrovna was not in any way a mediocre frivolous hopper who burned her husband's money and “painted a little” - this assessment is entirely on Chekhov's conscience. Sofya Petrovna was an extremely talented and intelligent lady with a kind and open heart, everyone's favorite.
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