Boris Kustodiev. Best paintings. Comp. Astakhov A.

It is difficult to find in world painting an example of such a devoted service to Russian art than the life and work of Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev.

The future artist was born in a poor family in Astrakhan. Young Boris studied at the Theological School and Seminary. He entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where Ilya Repin noticed him. The master made the student an incredible proposal - to become a co -author of the picture a meeting of the State Council, in which the young student of the master was to create portraits of issuing people in the field of culture. Portraits of I.Ya. Bilibina and V.V. Mate will bring him fame.