* TITLE: "River landscape"* ARTISTS: Sergei Ivanovich Svetoslavsky* SIZE: 19x25 cm/'7.48x9.84 inches', frame size: 29x35 cm/'11.41Ñ…13.77 inches'* MEDIUM: oil, canvas* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this productAbout the artist: Sergei Ivanovich Svetoslavsky (Svitoslavsky) was born and lived most of his life in our city (October 6, 1857 - September 19, 1931). For several years (1870-1883, 1890-1894) he was engaged in his creative activity in Moscow, where he was educated at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His teachers were Alexei Savrasov, Vasily Perov, Evgraf Sorokin, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Vasily Polenov. This and other stories about famous people of Kiev can be heard on our excursions around Kiev.In 1891-1900, the artist was a member of the Association of the Itinerants, a popular community in those years for showing paintings to the public.In 1900 Svetoslavsky was awarded the bronze medal of the World Exhibition in Paris for the painting "Courtyard".In 1905-1907, he already organized an art studio in Kiev, where former students of the Kiev Art School, expelled for participating in student unrest, continued their education.He was the creator of the metal painted panels that once adorned the interiors of the Chocolate House.During this period, the master discovers new painting for himself. He begins to work in the field of satirical graphics. His cartoons were published by the Kiev magazine Shershen (since 1906).In 1904-1917 Sergei Ivanovich took part in several charity exhibitions. Among them were exhibitions held by the Kiev department of guardianship for the deaf and dumb, an exhibition to help the Polish population suffered during the hostilities during the First World War, and others.However, in the life of a landscape painter, a successful cartoonist, tragedy struck. In the early 1920s (he was already over 60) his eye disease worsens and he can no longer write. Until the end of his life, he almost did not work as a painter. In the fall of 1931, at the age of 73, he died a natural death in Kiev.Kiev became an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Svetoslavsky. On the quiet Kurenevka, where life was measured, life was more like a peasant than a city one - they went to the well with buckets for water, cows, horses and other livestock were kept in the yards - there was a small estate of his parents. Kirillovskaya Street, 96. Svetoslavsky did not have a family, he lived with his old mother. This was his world. On Kurenevka Svetoslavsky wrote his Kiev, which was not touched by urbanization - back streets with squat houses, tree-covered slopes near St. Cyril's Church, bustle of local fairs, mysterious thickets of the abandoned park "Kin sadness". “In the park, I only met an old artist. He sat under a large linen umbrella and painted sketches. The artist was already glancing at me so angrily from a distance that I never once dared to approach him, ”K. Paustovsky recalls in his book“ Distant Years ”. And although he does not name the artist, one can understand who he is talking about: this is how Svetoslavsky was recorded in those "distant years" by the camera lens - a tall man with a thick beard sits under an umbrella near an unfinished sketch. His appearance, reminiscent of contemporaries of Darwin or Tolstoy, attracted attention. V. Vasnetsov saw the prophet Moses in him and depicted the artist in this image on one of the pylons of the Vladimir Cathedral.The unfriendly attitude towards outside observers also finds its explanation. Svetoslavsky humorously told on the pages of one of the Kiev newspapers about a curious incident that happened in 1903. As soon as he fitted a canvas to a sketchbook, began to paint boats on the Dnieper, he was taken to the department by an overzealous policeman. The personality of the artist was quickly established, he was so famous in the city, and the subject of the image itself did not cause objections from the head - the artist wrote everything that he saw outside his workshop.Today, Svetoslavsky's works are kept in the Kiev Museum of Ukrainian Art, the National Historical Museum of Ukraine, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and private collections. The artist himself was buried in Kiev, at the Lukyanovskoye cemetery.