Pavel Fedotov. Kuznetsov E.D.

The book recreates the dramatic circumstances of the life and work of the outstanding Russian painter and the schedule of the first half of the 19th century Pavel Fedotov, the author of the famous paintings “Matchmaking of the Major”, “Widow”, “Anchor, still Anchor! "," Players "and others. The personality traits of the artist are looted in the memoirs of contemporaries, in their own literary and poetic works of Fedotov and, most importantly, in his painting. The author is the famous art critic and historian Erast Davidovich Kuznetsov, paying special attention to Fedotov’s unique role in the formation of the Russian household genre, reveals the meaning, originality and significance of his work.