Nativity. The Patriarch hails the Sovereign in the Golden Chamber.
Buchholz Fedor (Theodor Alexander Ferdinand) Fedorovich (Gustavovich) (1857-1942).
Illustration for the Niva magazine. Engraved by Schübler
Christmas market.
Genrikh Matveevich Manizer. Canvas, oil.
Omsk regional museum fine arts them. M. A. Vrubel
Christmas market.
Buchkuri Alexander Alekseevich (1870 -1942). 1906
Preparatory drawing for the painting "Christmas Market". 1918
Kustodiev Boris Mikhailovich
Christmas market.
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev. 1918 Oil on canvas. 98x98.
Krasnodar Regional Art Museum them. F. Kovalenko, Krasnodar
Canvases on the theme of the festive provincial life are distinguished by a special, only for Kustodiev characteristic brightness, multicolor and vitality the smallest details. Folk holidays and festivities are reflected in many works of the artist different years. While still a student of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Kustodiev thesis chose a picture on a similar plot. He traveled through the villages, painted sketches - portraits of peasants, landscape sketches, genre scenes. The Christmas Tree Market, a work created by the artist in 1918, also belongs to the same topic.
Singing the life and customs of the Russian provinces, Kustodiev miraculously combined painting with verbal and musical folklore- with a song and a fairy tale. An attentive, thoughtful viewer not only sees, but also "hears" the artist's work. Painted, most likely from memory, the picture does not have an exact geographical address - this is Rus' in general, and not the Astrakhan or Kostroma Christmas tree market. The action on the canvas takes place as if "in a certain kingdom, in a certain state." The spacious sky and the gilded domes of the church above the fussy anthill of people - who is there among this motley crowd! The real is wonderfully combined with the fantastic: a colorful fairy tale, full of vivid details, appears before us. And the artist, like a real storyteller, emphasized all the funny, toy that is in this simple story, hiding all the serious that can be hidden in it. The Christmas tree market is depicted by the artist as a festive spectacle. The space of the picture resembles a stage. The arrangement of the figures, at first glance, is given chaotically: the image can be continued both to the right and to the left. The openness of the composition, its peculiar fluidity further enhance this overall impression.
A large place is given to the landscape in this genre scene - church domes seem fabulous against the backdrop of a snowy sky, spruce trees are removed in elegant winter clothes - the main subject of bargaining at the fair. The artist made the brushstroke on the canvas easily, smoothly, even somehow delicately. Kustodiev attached great importance to line, drawing, and the play of color spots. Chiaroscuro in this case does not have of great importance, the light becomes very conditional. Local color spots form a harmonious decorative whole. The sky covered with clouds has no depth, the domes of the church are intense in color, due to which the difference in plans is reduced to almost nothing.
On the one hand, Kustodiev noticed and transferred to the canvas the true types of the Russian provinces, conveyed the real atmosphere of New Year's fuss, and on the other hand, the artist himself plays a festive performance, a costume performance with beautiful scenery. A joyful, incomparable feeling of fullness of life and movement permeates the canvas. Life in this work is visible everywhere: people are bustling, rejoicing and fussing, drawing their intricate patterns in the sky snowy winter, and all this action is wrapped in the fresh coniferous aroma of the beautiful spruce.
The world in the picture of Kustodiev is similar magic lantern with constantly changing pictures - you can endlessly watch its diverse, so simple, uncomplicated and at the same time complete deep meaning life. The blue and pale white colors of the painting pacify, delight, as if lulling, creating a gentle and poetic atmosphere of waiting for a miracle on the eve of the holiday - timeless, always modern. They remind us, always busy and in a hurry somewhere, that everything in this world is beautiful, that life is amazing just because it is life.
From the book: T. Kondratenko, Y. Solodovnikov "Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F.A. Kovalenko". White city, 2003.
Behind the trees
Return from the Christmas market.
MM. Germashev (Bubello). Postcard
Preparing for Christmas.
Sergei Vasilyevich Dosekin (1869-1916). 1896
Christmas tree.
Korin Alexey Mikhailovich.1910
Christmas tree.
Nikolai Ivanovich Feshin (1881-1955). 1917
Christmas tree.
Alexander Moravov. 1921
New Year's Eve meal.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanova (sister of Emperor Nicholas II). 1935
Christmas day. In the monastery.
Ivan Silych Goryushkin-Sorokopudov. Illustration in the magazine "Niva"
Slavilshchiki-city.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich 1867 Oil on canvas
Glorifiers.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich 1868 Oil on canvas.
State Russian Museum
Slavilshchiki.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich Canvas, oil.
State Vladimir-Suzdal Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve
Slavilshchiki.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich Canvas, oil.
Odessa Art Museum
Slavilshchiki.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich 1872 Oil on canvas. 40.3?51.5.
Ulyanovsk Art Museum
City-Christoslavs.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich (1837-1883). 1872 Oil on canvas.
Perm State Art Gallery
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich (1837 - 1883) attended classes Imperial Academy Arts and received a small silver medal for the paintings "The Name Day of the Deacon" (1862) and "The City Slavers" (1864), which V. V. Stasov welcomed as "a wonderful fresh offspring of the Fedotov school." The last plot was subsequently repeated several times, at least 18 author's replicas are known, although the first version has not been preserved. Art catalog
In the cellar during Holy Week.
Solomatkin Leonid Ivanovich (1837-1883). 1878 Oil on canvas. 26.5x21.5.
Art Gallery Generations Fund of Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous region Ugra
Admission: 2003
In the painting "In the Cellar at Christmas Week" Solomatkin depicts his favorite characters - itinerant musicians. Is talent a burden or a gift, a blessing or a curse? Talent is destiny. Talent did not make the artist and his heroes happy, but they fulfill their mission with dignity. The musicians depicted in the picture have known better days. The cello played by the old man is a professional instrument that allows the musician to claim some kind of specialness, testifying to a certain level of life left in the past. The old man is accompanied by a boy who plays along with him on the pipe. Apparently, for the sake of this boy, carefully covered with a warm scarf, the old man has to wander with a heavy tool from the tavern to the tavern, earning a living. There is a Christmas tree decorated with toys in the room, and masks and masquerade costumes hang on a hanger, giving everything that happens a phantasmagoric shade. Art Gallery of the Generations Fund of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Yugra
Waits. (Children old village).
Fedot Vasilyevich Sychkov (1870 - 1958). 1935. Oil on canvas. 63x83 cm
Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. D. Erzya
With a star
Reproduction from a painting by M. Germashev, published by the company "Richard", printed in the printing house of the partnership "R. Golike and A. Vilborg". Petrograd, 1916
Christmas card based on a drawing by Boris Zworykin
Carols in Little Russia.
Trutovsky Konstantin Alexandrovich (1826-1893). Not later than 1864
Russian painting
Carols.
Nikolai Kornilovich Pimenko. Deut. floor. 1880s. Canvas, oil. 170x130.
Donetsk Regional Art Museum
museum-painting.dp.ua
Holiday riding.
Buchkuri Alexander Alekseevich (1870 -1942). Canvas, oil.
While they were there, the time came for her to give birth; And she gave birth to her firstborn Son, and swaddled Him, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no place for them in an inn. (Luke 2:6-7). Until the beginning of the 5th century, Christmas was celebrated at the same time as the feast of the Epiphany. Therefore, in painting, the plots of the birth itself and subsequent episodes were mixed, which, strictly speaking, are more related to Theophany - the worship of the Magi (kings), the worship of shepherds, which do not always include the image of the birth of Christ itself.
Dream of Joseph.
Alexander Andreevich Ivanov. 1850s
Paper, watercolor, Italian pencil.
Moscow. State Tretyakov Gallery
Nativity.
Gagarin Grigory Grigorievich
Adoration of the Magi.
Gagarin Grigory Grigorievich
Nativity of Christ (Adoration of the Shepherds).
Shebuev Vasily Kozmich. 1847 Oil on canvas. 233x139.5 cm.
Image for the Church of the Annunciation of the Horse Guards Regiment in St. Petersburg
Nativity.
Repin Ilya Efimovich. 1890 Oil on canvas. 73x53.3.
Appearance of an angel announcing the birth of Christ to the shepherds. Sketch.
Ivanov Alexander Andreevich. 1850s
Brown paper, watercolor, whitewash, Italian pencil. 26.4x39.7
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Doxology of the shepherds.
Ivanov Alexander Andreevich. 1850
Appearance of an angel to the shepherds.
Petrovsky Petr Stepanovich (1814-1842). 1839 Oil on canvas. 213x161.
Cherepovets Museum Association
For this picture, the young artist - a student of Karl Bryullov - in 1839 received the first large gold medal of the Academy of Arts. The canvas was in the museum of the Imperial Academy of Arts until the moment of closing, then it was transferred to the Cherepovets Museum of Local Lore.
Nativity.
Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich 1885-1896
Frescoes in the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv
Nativity.
Vishnyakov Ivan Yakovlevich and others, 1755
From the Trinity-Petrovsky Cathedral.
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Christmas.
Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukic. 1790 Oil on canvas.
Tver regional Art Gallery
Nativity.
Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich. Canvas, oil
Historical, architectural and art museum "New Jerusalem"
Nativity.
M.V. Nesterov. 1890-1891 Paper on cardboard, gouache, gold. 41x31.
Sketch for the painting of the altar wall of the southern aisle in the choirs of Vladimir Cathedral
State Tretyakov Gallery
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=15006
Nativity.
Sketch for the mural on the altar wall of the southern aisle in the choirs of Vladimir Cathedral.
Nesterov Mikhail Vasilievich 1890–1891 Paper on cardboard, gouache, gold. 41x31.8
State Tretyakov Gallery
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=14959
Nativity.
M. V. NESTEROV 1890
The kneeling figure of a young man with a staff in his hand. A hand holding a staff. Hand raised to the mouth.
M.V. Nesterov. Etude. 1890-1891 paper on cardboard, graphite pencil, Italian pencil, charcoal. 49x41.
Preparatory sketches for the figure of one of the shepherds of the composition "The Nativity of Christ" (the south altar is attached to the choir of St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv)
Kyiv state museum Russian art
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=4661
Christmas (Bow of the kings).
M.V. Nesterov. 1903
Fragment of the painting of the northern wall of the church in the name of the Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=15189
Christmas (Bow of the kings).
M.V. Nesterov. 1899-1900 Paper on cardboard, graphite pencil, gouache, watercolor, bronze, aluminium. 31x49.
Sketch for the painting of the northern wall of the church in the name of the Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky.
State Russian Museum
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=15177
Magi. Sketch
Ryabushkin Andrey Petrovich. Paper, watercolor
Kostroma State United Art Museum
Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lebedev Klavdy Vasilyevich (1852-1816)
Angelic praise at the moment of the birth of the Savior.
Lebedev Klavdy Vasilyevich (1852-1816)
Nativity.
Lebedev Klavdy Vasilyevich (1852-1816). Graphic arts.
Adoration of the Magi.
Claudius Vasilyevich Lebedev,
Church and Archaeological Cabinet of the MDA
Adoration of the Magi.
Valerian Otmar. 1897 Oil on canvas, 71x66.
The original mosaic for the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
Appearance of an angel to the shepherds. Nativity. Candlemas.
Nativity.
Mosaic based on the original by I. F. Porfirov
Church of the Resurrection of Christ (Savior on Blood), St. Petersburg
Nativity of Christ and other sacred scenes from the life of Jesus Christ and the Mother of God.
I. Ya. Bilibin.
Fresco sketch for the southern wall of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Olshany
Magi (wise men).
Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov. 1914 Watercolor, brown ink, ink, pen, brush on paper. 37x39.2 cm.
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Olga's Gallery
Adoration of the Magi.
Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov. 1913 Wood, pencil, gouache. 45.7x34.9.
Private collection
Initially, the work was with the artist's sister Evdokia Glebova.
October 17, 1990 was sold to an anonymous person at Sotheby's auction,
then November 29, 2006 for $ 1.5 million, sold again at Christie's auction.
Auction house Christie's
Adoration of the Magi.
Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov. 1913 Paper, gouache (tempera?), 35.5x45.5.
Private collection, Switzerland
Publication Tretyakov Gallery, 2006
http://www.tg-m.ru/articles/06/04/042–049.pdf
Sites-sources of reproductions:
While they were there, the time came for her to give birth; And she gave birth to her firstborn Son, and swaddled Him, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no place for them in an inn. (Luke 2:6-7). Until the beginning of the 5th century, Christmas was celebrated at the same time as the feast of the Epiphany. Therefore, in painting, the plots of the birth itself and subsequent episodes were mixed, which, strictly speaking, are more related to Theophany - the worship of the Magi (kings), the worship of shepherds, which do not always include the image of the birth of Christ itself.
Dream of Joseph.
Alexander Andreevich Ivanov. 1850s
Paper, watercolor, Italian pencil.
Moscow. State Tretyakov Gallery
Nativity.
Gagarin Grigory Grigorievich
Adoration of the Magi.
Gagarin Grigory Grigorievich
Nativity of Christ (Adoration of the Shepherds).
Shebuev Vasily Kozmich. 1847 Oil on canvas. 233x139.5 cm.
Image for the Church of the Annunciation of the Horse Guards Regiment in St. Petersburg
Nativity.
Repin Ilya Efimovich. 1890 Oil on canvas. 73x53.3.
Appearance of an angel announcing the birth of Christ to the shepherds. Sketch.
Ivanov Alexander Andreevich. 1850s
Brown paper, watercolor, whitewash, Italian pencil. 26.4x39.7
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Doxology of the shepherds.
Ivanov Alexander Andreevich. 1850
Appearance of an angel to the shepherds.
Petrovsky Petr Stepanovich (1814-1842). 1839 Oil on canvas. 213x161.
Cherepovets Museum Association
For this picture, the young artist - a student of Karl Bryullov - in 1839 received the first large gold medal of the Academy of Arts. The canvas was in the museum of the Imperial Academy of Arts until the moment of closing, then it was transferred to the Cherepovets Museum of Local Lore.
Nativity.
Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhailovich 1885-1896
Frescoes in the Vladimir Cathedral in Kyiv
Nativity.
Vishnyakov Ivan Yakovlevich and others, 1755
From the Trinity-Petrovsky Cathedral.
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Christmas.
Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich. 1790 Oil on canvas.
Tver Regional Art Gallery
Nativity.
Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich. Canvas, oil
Historical, architectural and art museum "New Jerusalem"
Nativity.
M.V. Nesterov. 1890-1891 Paper on cardboard, gouache, gold. 41x31.
Sketch for the painting of the altar wall of the southern aisle in the choirs of Vladimir Cathedral
State Tretyakov Gallery
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=15006
Nativity.
Sketch for the mural on the altar wall of the southern aisle in the choirs of Vladimir Cathedral.
Nesterov Mikhail Vasilievich 1890–1891 Paper on cardboard, gouache, gold. 41x31.8
State Tretyakov Gallery
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=14959
Nativity.
M. V. NESTEROV 1890
The kneeling figure of a young man with a staff in his hand. A hand holding a staff. Hand raised to the mouth.
M.V. Nesterov. Etude. 1890-1891 Paper on cardboard, graphite pencil, Italian pencil, charcoal. 49x41.
Preparatory sketches for the figure of one of the shepherds of the composition "The Nativity of Christ" (the south altar is attached to the choir of St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv)
Kyiv State Museum of Russian Art
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=4661
Christmas (Bow of the kings).
M.V. Nesterov. 1903
Fragment of the painting of the northern wall of the church in the name of the Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=15189
Christmas (Bow of the kings).
M.V. Nesterov. 1899-1900 Paper on cardboard, graphite pencil, gouache, watercolor, bronze, aluminium. 31x49.
Sketch for the painting of the northern wall of the church in the name of the Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky.
State Russian Museum
http://www.art-catalog.ru/picture.php?id_picture=15177
Magi. Sketch
Ryabushkin Andrey Petrovich. Paper, watercolor
Kostroma State United Art Museum
Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lebedev Klavdy Vasilyevich (1852-1816)
Angelic praise at the moment of the birth of the Savior.
Lebedev Klavdy Vasilyevich (1852-1816)
Nativity.
Lebedev Klavdy Vasilyevich (1852-1816). Graphic arts.
Adoration of the Magi.
Claudius Vasilyevich Lebedev,
Church and Archaeological Cabinet of the MDA
Adoration of the Magi.
Valerian Otmar. 1897 Oil on canvas, 71x66.
The original mosaic for the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood
Appearance of an angel to the shepherds. Nativity. Candlemas.
Nativity.
Mosaic based on the original by I. F. Porfirov
Church of the Resurrection of Christ (Savior on Blood), St. Petersburg
Nativity of Christ and other sacred scenes from the life of Jesus Christ and the Mother of God.
I. Ya. Bilibin.
Fresco sketch for the southern wall of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Olshany
Magi (wise men).
Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov. 1914 Watercolor, brown ink, ink, pen, brush on paper. 37x39.2 cm.
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Olga's Gallery
Adoration of the Magi.
Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov. 1913 Wood, pencil, gouache. 45.7x34.9.
Private collection
Initially, the work was with the artist's sister Evdokia Glebova.
October 17, 1990 was sold to an anonymous person at Sotheby's auction,
then November 29, 2006 for $ 1.5 million, sold again at Christie's auction.
Auction house Christie's
Adoration of the Magi.
Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov. 1913 Paper, gouache (tempera?), 35.5x45.5.
Private collection, Switzerland
Publication of the Tretyakov Gallery, 2006
http://www.tg-m.ru/articles/06/04/042–049.pdf
Sites-sources of reproductions:
Nativity is one of the most beautiful and solemn Christian holidays. In everything Christian world, including in Rus', Christmas has always been celebrated with special reverence. On this day, decorated Christmas trees are everywhere, symbolizing the gospel tree, candles are burning, like those that burned in the Bethlehem barn. In many countries, on Christmas night, children take to the streets singing carols. Christmas Eve is called "Christmas Eve".
Christmas Eve in the Christian world is considered exclusively a family dinner. On this day peace, love and harmony reign in the house.
The selection dedicated to Christmas includes the following pictures:
1. Giorgio Vasari. Christmas.
Giorgio Vasari (Giorgio Vasari; nicknamed Aretino, July 30, 1511, Arezzo - June 27, 1574, Florence) - architect and painter, author of the first history and theory of arts, "Lives of the most famous painters, sculptors and architects."
2. Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich. Nativity. Canvas, oil
Historical, architectural and art museum "New Jerusalem", Istra, Moscow region
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757-1825) - Russian artist, portrait master.
3. Jacob de Becker. Nativity.
Backer, Jacob, Dutch painter (1608-1657), Rembrandt school, portrait painter.
4. Giorgione. Adoration of the Magi.
Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, better known as Giorgione (Italian: Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, Giorgione; 1477/1478-1510) - italian artist, representative Venetian school painting; one of the greatest masters of the High Renaissance.
5. Rogier van der Weyden. Adoration of the Magi.
Rogier van der Weyden (Dutch. Rogier van der Weyden, 1399/1400, Tournai - June 18, 1464, Brussels) - Dutch painter, along with Jan van Eyck, is considered one of the founders and most influential masters of early Netherlandish painting. Van der Weyden's art is focused on the comprehension of individuality human personality in all its depths.
6. Rembrandt, Harmens van Rijn. Escape to Egypt.
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Netherlands Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)soːn vɑn ˈrɛin], 1606-1669) - Dutch painter, draftsman and engraver, Great master chiaroscuro, the largest representative of the golden age Dutch painting. He managed to embody in his works the whole range of human experiences with such emotional richness, which fine art did not know before him. The works of Rembrandt, extremely diverse in genre affiliation, open the viewer timeless spiritual world human experiences and feelings.
7. Hugo van der Goes. Christmas.
Hugo van der Goes (Dutch. Hugo van der Goes) (c. 1420-25, Ghent - 1482, Auderghem) - Flemish painter, which Albrecht Dürer considered the largest representative early Netherlandish painting, along with Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden.
8. Sandro Botticelli. Mystical Christmas.
"Mystical Christmas" (Italian: Natività mistica) is one of latest paintings Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli, created in a period marked in his work by the breakdown of Quattrocento optimism, the growth of religiosity and an acutely tragic perception of the world.
The canvas was practically unknown until the Englishman Otley saw it at Aldobrandini's villa and acquired it. Botticelli was "rediscovered" art critics with the beginning of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, it was then that John Ruskin gave the canvas its current name. In 1878, the London National Gallery bought the painting for £1,500.
9. Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio. Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence.
Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio (1573-1610), Italian painter and reformer European painting 17th century, one of the greatest masters of the Baroque. One of the first to use the style of writing "chiaroscuro" - a sharp opposition of light and shadow.
10. Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov. Nativity.
Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862-1942) - Russian and Soviet painter. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1942). Laureate Stalin Prize first degree (1941).
Christmas in Rus' - great holiday, second in importance only to Bright Easter. On the evening before Christmas - Christmas Eve - it is customary to refrain from eating: "It is impossible until the first star." According to tradition, on this day, with the appearance of the first star in the sky, which symbolizes Bethlehem, the believers complete a four-week fast. Then, closer to midnight, the Orthodox go to the temple to celebrate Christmas there.
The holiday of the Nativity of Christ has been a source of inspiration for Russian artists, poets and writers from time immemorial.
Christmas stood at the window and drew frosty flowers on the glass, waited for the floors to be washed in the house, the rugs to be spread, the lamps to be lit in front of the icons and Him to be let in ... - Vasily Akimovich Nikiforov-Volgin "Silver Blizzard"
Anatoly Anatolyevich Korobkin - Before Christmas. Canvas, oil, 80x60. 2011
The most beautiful and fragrant word in the world - "Christmas" - went through the soul with a cheerful wind. It smelled of blizzard and prickly coniferous paws. - Vasily Akimovich Nikiforov-Volgin "Silver Blizzard"
Genrikh Matveevich Manizer - Christmas tree auction. Canvas, oil, Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts. M. A. Vrubel
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev - Christmas tree auction, 1918 Canvas, oil, 98x98. Krasnodar Regional Art Museum. F. Kovalenko, Krasnodar
Alexander Alekseevich Buchkuri - Christmas market, 1906
Christmas romance
Is yours New Year in dark blue
Wave in the middle of the urban sea
Floating in inexplicable anguish,
Like life starts again
As if there will be light and glory
Have a good day and plenty of bread
As if life will swing to the right,
swinging to the left.
- Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky (1961)
Vladimir Yurievich Zhdanov - Christmas Eve
Viktor Lukyanov - Christmas, 2001
What bliss that the snows sparkle
That the cold got stronger, and it drizzled in the morning,
That foil sparkles wildly and gently
On every corner and in the shop window.
While serpentine, tinsel, rigmarole
They rise above the boredom of other possessions,
The languor of New Year's Eve weeks
endure and endure - what a wondrous fate ...
- Bella Akhmadulina, December 1974
Alexei Mikhailovich Korin - Christmas tree, 1910
Alexander Viktorovich Moravov - Christmas tree, 1921
Alexey Solovyov - Walk on Christmas Eve. Oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm. 2007
Christmas
My calendar is semi-disgraced
blossomed like a crimson figure;
on glass palm trees and opals
cold spellcasting brought.
Cirrus poured out a pattern,
radiant arched,
and tangerines and boron
the living room smells blue.
- Vladimir Nabokov, September 23, 1921, Berlin
Sergei Mikhailovich Korovin (born 1957) - Christmas
Irina Vladimirovna Rybakova - Christmas, 2009
Sergei Vasilyevich Dosekin - Preparing for Christmas, 1896
Leonty Nikiforovich Mazanov - Christmas evening, 1919
It was a late evening and crimson,
The harbinger star has risen.
A new voice cried over the abyss -
The Virgin gave birth to a child.
And there was a sign and a miracle:
In imperturbable silence
Judas appeared among the crowd
In a cold mask, on a horse.
Lords full of care,
Sending a message to all corners
And on the lips of Iscariot
The messengers saw the smile.
- Alexander Blok (1902)
Sergei Smirnov - Christmas Eve. Hour of the first star
Where the night anchors
In the deaf constellations of the Zodiac,
Dry leaves of October,
Deaf feeders of darkness,
Where are you flying? For what
Have you fallen from the tree of life?
Bethlehem is alien and strange to you,
And you didn't see the manger.
There is no offspring for you - alas,
Genderless rage owns you,
You will go childless
In their fallen coffins.
And on the threshold of silence
In the midst of nature's oblivion,
Not to you, not to you are doomed,
And the stars are eternal peoples.
- Osip Mandelstam (1920)
Yuri Nikolayevich Volkov - Christmas Eve, 2000
In that Holy holiday
On this bright holiday -
Christmas holiday
We will tell each other
Nice words.
Quietly the snow falls:
Outside the window winter
A miracle will happen here
And set hearts on fire.
May your smiles
On this wonderful day
Will be our happiness
And a gift to everyone.
The sounds of life flow
Happiness and goodness
Illuminating thoughts
Light of Christmas.
- Khomyakov Alexey Stepanovich (1804-1860)
Alexander Alekseevich Buchkuri - Skating at Christmas time. Canvas, oil
Nadezhda Poluyan-Vnukova (Ukraine) - At Grandma's before Christmas
Nadezhda Poluyan-Vnukova (Ukraine) - Christmas party
A star shone in the east
And from distant steppe countries
The gray-haired prophets suffered
In tribute to gold, myrrh and Lebanon.
Amazed by her beauty
The venerable magi have gone
Behind the guiding star
And fell to the face of the earth.
And before me, in the unknown steppe,
The star of your generosity has risen:
She is her beam in the beauty of heaven
In the late evening, mine will shed.
But I have to offer
There is no gold, no Lebanon, -
Only with the incense of hymns
A poet will fall at your feet.
- Athanasius Fet (1887)
Konstantin Alexandrovich Trutovsky - Carols in Little Russia, no later than 1864
Fedot Vasilyevich Sychkov - Christoslavs. (Children of the old village), 1935 Canvas, oil, 63x83 cm. Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S.D. Erzya
