Mikhail Nesterov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov
Portrait by Viktor Vasnetsov
Born	31 May 1862 Ufa, Russian Empire
Died	18 October 1942 Moscow, Russian SSR, Soviet Union
Field	Painter
Training	Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Imperial Academy of Arts
Movement	Russian Symbolism

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Не́стеров; May 31 [O.S. May 19] 1862, Ufa – 18 October 1942, Moscow) was a major representative of religious Symbolism in Russian art. He was a pupil of Pavel Tchistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but later allied himself with the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki. His canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890–91), depicting the conversion of medieval Russian saint Sergii Radonezhsky, is often considered to be the earliest example of the Russian Symbolist style.

From 1890 to 1910, Nesterov lived in Kiev and St Petersburg, working on frescoes in St. Vladimir's Cathedral and the Church on Spilt Blood, respectively. After 1910, he spent the remainder of his life in Moscow, working in the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent. As a devout Orthodox Christian, he did not accept the Bolshevik Revolution but remained in Russia until his death, painting the portraits of Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Pavlov, Ksenia Derzhinskaia^[1], Otto Schmidt, and Vera Mukhina, among others.

Gallery

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  The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew (1890–91)

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  Taking the Veil (1897-1898)

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  Annunciation (1899)

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  Portrait of Alexei Maksimovich Gorky (1901)

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  Beyond the Volga (1905)

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  Philosophers depicts Symbolist philosophers Pavel Florensky and Sergei Bulgakov

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  Tolstoy (1906) depicts Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy at his home in Moscow.

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  Woman in a Riding Habit (1906) depicts the artist's first wife, Olga Nesterova.

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  Portrait of E. P. Nesterov (1906)

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  Portrait of B. M. Nesterov (1908)

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  Crucifixion (1912)

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  Elder Servant of the God Abraham (1914)

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  Young girl by the pond (1923) depicts N. M. Nesterova.

Notes

1. ^ Derzhinskaia Ksenia Georgievna (1889-1951), cousin of the musicologist Alexander Ossovsky and the composer Mykola Vilinsky, outstanding Russian singer, also professor at Moscow Conservatory (1947-51), was called "Golden Soprano of Bolshoi Theatre"[1], also see Sergei Rachmaninoff

External links

• Detailed biography (in Russian)
• Online Nesterov gallery (in English)

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Name	Nesterov, Mikhail
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Date of birth	31 May 1862
Place of birth	Ufa, Russian Empire
Date of death	18 October 1942
Place of death	Moscow