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| | Russian Paintings Gallery - Perov Vasiliy (1834-1882) - brief biography |
 | | Only an artist who fully understood the task and responsibility of portraiture could have achieved this characterization, passionate and devoid of everything vain and contingent. |
 | | So, in the portraits of Anton Rubenstein (1870), Alexander Ostrovsky (1871), Feodor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Dahl, Mikhail Pogodin, and Apollon Maikov (1872) we see a brilliant combination of a faithful and, at the same time, critical rendering and a profound delineation of character. |
 | | Life was changing, the art of painting was developing, and Perov saw and felt that he was falling behind, but he could not change his own manner. |
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