Most of the prominent people, including writers, composers, actors, artists, were avid hunters and considered this hobby to be the best pastime and the most inspiring moments in life. The description of the hunt is present in the recognized literary classics - Tolstoy, Turgenev, Hemingway. The theme of hunting also often captivated great artists. In our open spaces, one of the most famous paintings dedicated to hunting is the painting by Vasily Perov “Hunters at Rest”, the second name is “Three Hunters”.
Painting "Three hunters"
A little about the author - artist Vasily Perov
Vasily Grigorievich Perov was a very passionate and passionate hunter.
In the last years of his life, he even became a correspondent for Sabaneev's journal Nature and Hunting, where he not only wrote interesting articles, but also posted a series of theoretical articles about hunting. Of course, a favorite pastime could not but be captured on the canvases of the artist. In the 70s, Perov created a series of paintings dedicated to nature and the relationship of people with it - these are canvases such as "Dovecote", "Fisherman", "Birdcatcher", "Botanist". And the most famous of this cycle was the painting "Hunters at Rest". The author wrote two versions of the painting: one is stored in Moscow in the State Tretyakov Gallery, and the second is in the St. Petersburg Russian Museum.
At the first exhibition, the picture made a lot of noise. Because of her, many artists and critics even quarreled.
Stasov was delighted and said that this plot was as good as Turgenev's. But Saltykov-Shchedrin did not like it. The writer said that there is no spontaneity in it, they say, the artist has already very deliberately shown one hunter as a liar, the second as a gullible beginner, and the coachman shows with all appearance that this is exactly the case.
What did the audience see in 1871 at the exhibition?
It was then that the painting was exhibited for the first time. The main thing that struck the audience of those times was an interesting plot and psychological portraits of the characters on the canvas.
In the wake of the disturbing and dull autumn nature, three hunters settled down for a halt. The characters depicted in the picture are real people, friends of the artist, who served as prototypes of hunters. The hunt was clearly successful - in the foreground we also see some kind of bird. We also see other hunting attributes - a gun, a horn, a net and a yagtdash. An elderly hunter - judging by the clothes of the nobles, but not rich, tells another tale and is clearly in the spirit of Baron Munchausen. His burning gaze and active gestures indicate that the story of the story that happened is greatly exaggerated.
The second character is a young hunter, dressed expensively, with a needle, listens attentively and by his appearance believes every word of the narrator. The expression on his face indicates that he trustingly takes the whole story of the old narrator at face value.
A simple peasant lay down nearby, it can be seen from the clothes that this is most likely a coachman. He tilts his hat to one side and grins, scratching behind his ear in disbelief. Apparently, he has already heard many times and knows that these stories are very different from what he saw with his own eyes on many hunting trips. He clearly chuckles at the gullibility of the young hunter. It even seems that he is thinking about something of his own and no longer pays attention to the stories of the old master.
Some critics saw the whole life cycle of a person in the plot: youth, eagerly learning the world, absorbing everything with sincere faith. Then comes maturity and experience, when everything is questioned, and nothing is taken for granted. And maturity is replaced by old age, which lives more with memories of the past.
At first glance, the impression of calmness and carelessness on the canvas is created. But if you look closely at the plot, you can notice the restlessness and anxiety in nature.
Birds are circling in the sky, the sky is overcast, the wind has risen - obviously, a thunderstorm is approaching. In contrast to the drama of nature, the hunters' poses are completely carefree. The author succeeded in a truly brilliant combination of a dramatic background and an almost anecdotal plot.
The great success of the picture and forced Perov to make a copy of it.
Modern history of the painting
The story of the three hunters at rest did not end there. Since the appearance of the picture, she has become very beloved among the people. Based on the plot of Perov, thousands of copies were made, the image was transferred to tapestries, rugs, and bedspreads. There is a picture even on candy wrappers. This cute trinity is embroidered, appliquéd, burned out and, lately, even tattooed on the body. In the city of Yekaterinburg, a monument was erected according to the plot of "Hunters". A lot of funny and not so funny caricatures appeared, parodying the plot of the picture. It turns out that Perov brilliantly coped with the task, since the picture has acquired its own history and many parallel tasks.
Interesting facts related to the painting "Hunters at Rest"
This is a very interesting point. During the years that the "Hunters at Rest" are kept in the Russian Museum, it was transferred several times from room to room. And the staff noticed that the picture is always much warmer than in the halls. For an unknown reason, and caretakers. And sightseers constantly gathered in groups near this picture. It was decided to study it more thoroughly. Scientists have uncovered startling facts. Firstly, it turned out that the temperature of the canvas itself and the air next to it is always almost 3 degrees higher than in the entire room, although this was not observed with neighboring paintings. The clocks installed nearby were malfunctioning - the mechanical ones slowed down, and the electronic ones stopped working. People also feel strange changes in the body - their hair and nails grow noticeably faster.
When the picture was trained with X-rays, everyone was shocked: the printed picture showed not hunters, but ... the Yalta Conference - the figures became exactly like Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt. When they put a map of Europe on tracing paper on top, it turned out that “Stalin” on the canvas points to the line of the second front. Oddly enough, scientists have found many more, as they claim, prophecies on this canvas - encrypted mathematical formulas, astronomical facts, even the exact diagram of the Bermuda Triangle.
Whether it's true or fiction, whether to believe it or not is everyone's business, but you can always admire a masterpiece.
"Hunters at rest" (1871)
When I tell you my True Tales, I remind myself of a left hunter, and my friends are both incredulous, like an average one, and listening, like a right one.
The picture is known to absolutely any inhabitant of our country. She is in textbooks, she is on the walls in many houses, even on candy wrappers. We know it by heart. And yet, I will tell you a couple of points that you may not know.
"To be fully an artist, one must be a creator; and to be a creator, you need to study life, you need to educate the mind and heart, educate not by studying government models, but by vigilant observation and exercise in reproducing types and their inherent inclinations ... By this study, you need to adjust the sensitivity to perceive impressions so that not a single object swept past you without being reflected in you, as in a pure, correct mirror ... An artist must be a poet, a dreamer, and most importantly, a vigilant worker ... Who wants to be an artist must become a complete fanatic, living and eating one art and only art " .
V.G. Perov "Our teachers"
Vasily Grigoryevich Perov was born on January 4 (December 23, old style) 1833 in Tobolsk, in the family of the provincial prosecutor Baron Grigory Karlovich Kridener. The boy was illegitimate, his parents got married later. All his younger brothers received the titles of barons and the surname Kridener, Perov received the surname of his godfather - Vasiliev, later the artist changed it to the nickname "Perov", given in childhood for success in penmanship. The boy's real father, Baron G.K. Kridener, was a liberal, educated man, played the piano and violin, knew several foreign languages and even wrote poetry. It was the latter that became the reason that some time after the birth of Vasily, the baron was dismissed for free-thinking rhymes.
Let's get back to the picture now.
And Perov did not write it alone, but in tandem with another famous artist - Alexei Savrasov. Together they taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Savrsov's share is not known to us, but there is an interesting point.
Perov wrote two versions of "Hunters at Rest": the first is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery, and the second - in the Russian Museum. Perov writes the second version a few years later. Did he turn to Savrasov again?
And the hunters are all real people! Artist's friends.
Doctor Dmitry Kuvshinnikov was depicted in his famous painting "Hunters at rest" by the artist V.G. Perov. The Hunter Storyteller on the left is him. Two other characters in the picture were painted from Kuvshinnikov's friends: the skeptic hunter is the doctor and amateur artist Vasily Vladimirovich Bessonov, and the young hunter is Nikolai Mikhailovich Nagornov, a relative of Leo Tolstoy (he was married to his niece, Varvara Valerianovna Tolstoy).
http://proekt-wms.narod.ru/moscow/2_4.htm
The picture is very popular with the audience, but some celebrities have sharply criticized it.
They didn't like unnaturally exaggerated emotions
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin criticized the picture for the lack of immediacy: “It is as if, when showing the picture, there is some kind of actor who is instructed by the role to speak aside: this is a liar, and this is a gullible one, inviting the viewer not to believe the liar hunter and to have fun with gullibility rookie hunter.
The landscape in the picture is written much better, compositionally it is closely connected with the characters. There is something disturbing in the surrounding nature - in the piercing wind, in the withered autumn grass, in the gloomy horizon. The sky is covered with clouds, thunderstorms cannot be avoided.
The most pronounced figure is, of course, the elderly hunter on the left, passionately telling his comrades about his hunting adventures. The second hunter, in the middle, is middle-aged, listens with a grin to an elderly hunter, scratches his ear, one might say, the narrator clearly makes him laugh with another tale, and he clearly does not trust him, but it is still interesting to listen to him. The young hunter, on the right, carefully and trustingly listens to the stories of the old hunter, it is likely that he himself also wants to tell something about his hunt, but the old man clearly does not give him a word to say.
I am not a hunter, but a hunter friend, he told me that there are many inaccuracies in the picture.
The dog in the background, apparently a setter, and with the cops do not hunt hares. The black grouse lying on the right is his prey, but there is also a horn in the picture, and it is used only when hunting with hounds. In addition, when hunting for black grouse is open (and, by the way, it is found in the forest, and not in the field), hunting for a hare is closed. But whether hunting was opened in that century, I do not know. He also said that a self-respecting hunter would not throw a gun like that - the barrel would become clogged, the trigger would break. These are the bells and whistles from the modern hunter.
In the vastness of the network, I found such a story about a picture, only I lost the link. But read:
"Hunters at Rest" is one of the most popular paintings by the outstanding artist of the second half of the 19th century, Vasily Grigorievich Perov.
Until recently, it was believed that the artist painted two versions of this painting. But there is an assumption that the author created three paintings "Hunters at rest". And one of them was kept in the Nikolaev Museum for 22 years as a copy ...
The most famous painting by Vasily Perov in the century before last made a splash at an exhibition in Europe, along with Repin's "Barge Haulers on the Volga". After the exhibition, the canvas was bought by the famous collector Tretyakov, the artist wrote the second author's version for the tsar, and now it is in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Sensation - the third version of the "hunters" was found in the Nikolaev Regional Museum.
The canvas was studied for two years. The picture was painted without a sketch in pencil, but immediately with paints - it was in this manner that Vasily Perov worked. "Nikolaev" picture of the same size and written in the same 1871 as the work, which is stored in the Tretyakov Gallery. And the version that Perov wrote for the tsar and which is kept in St. Petersburg was created later - in 1877 - and is smaller in area.
Kyiv restorers presented the results of the research to the Tretyakov Gallery. They agreed with the conclusions of experts from the National Academy of Arts; Perov's authorship is still under consideration.
It still remains a mystery who the artist Perov really was? Critical realist, Wanderer VG Perov was a friend of almost all the outstanding painters of his time.
He had eccentricities, which, perhaps, explain how Perov could paint such a canvas as "Hunters at Rest" in the 19th century. The picture is directly stuffed with encrypted messages, mathematical formulas and prophetic predictions.
Many years ago, the employees of the Russian Museum noticed that by the end of the working day, female caretakers gathered in the Perov Hall, not far from the Hunters at Rest. The work was rescheduled several times, but the result was the same. And caretakers, and visitors to the museum, and excursions most of all grouped and spent time near this picture.
There have been some studies that have revealed a real anomaly. The air temperature of this painting has always been 2.6 - 2.8 degrees higher than in the other rooms. The mechanical clock at Perov's painting slowed down, and the quartz movements began to beat down the rhythm and even stopped. The picture had a strange effect on people as well.
The canvas was subjected to infrared radiation and x-rays. In the picture we got an image of three men, very strongly reminiscent of someone. The picture was printed and ... the Yalta Conference arose! On the left, leaning slightly forward, sat Joseph Stalin and convincingly proved something. Opposite him, with his hands on his paralyzed legs, sat Roosevelt, and between them, looking skeptically at Stalin, lay Winston Churchill. By superimposing a transparent map of Europe on the picture, the experts were amazed. Stalin's hands accurately indicate the opening line of the second front, while the right hand rests on the coast of Normandy, where the allied landing took place seventy years later.
If we calculate the percentage of the area occupied by the three figures of hunters to the total area of the picture, then we will get the exact figure as a percentage of the total share of the three countries of England, America and Russia in the production of weapons in relation to the rest of the world in 1945! The killed game in the right corner of the picture, outlined by a single line, strangely resembles the outlines of defeated Japan. And if we connect the eyes of three hunters with the same line, then we will get the exact geometry of the Bermuda Triangle.
Perov ideally placed his characters in parts of the world in relation to the gun, which lies slightly to the right and below the center of the picture and means the equator. It's the first thing that catches your eye...
Here are the news about the picture that each of us knows from school ...
Addition
My post about Perov's painting "Hunters at rest" deservedly took one of the leading places in the ranking of my posts. It is clear that schoolchildren and studios are forced to write abstracts about the picture! Tyts in Google - and he gives them my post! They are glad. Unlike my supposedly 500 supposedly friends. It is interesting and useful for them to read the lines of the old fart ... So I will add a bit to that post.
Remember the main narrator from the picture?
Dymov meant doctor Dmitry Pavlovich Kuvshinnikov, a truly selfless physician and ascetic. Of course, he was not quiet and shy. And constant home parties did not bother him, he actively participated in them. Art bohemia respected Kuvshinnikov - suffice it to say that it was he, Dmitry Kuvshinnikov, who is depicted in Perov's famous painting "Hunters at Rest" as the main narrator. Together with the other two also real characters, they constantly went hunting:
So life is even more closely tied with different knots! Remember Chekhov's famous story "The Jumper"? So Chekhov wrote a story about Kushinnikov's wife! Jumper Olga Ivanovna was actually called Sofya Petrovna Kuvshinnikova. Here is her portrait by the artist Levitan:
I. Levitan "Portrait of Sofya Petrovna Kuvshinnikova", 1888
And she broke out a gigantic scandal in Moscow! Many prominent people of that time stopped shaking hands with Anton Palych, refused the house - and this is almost political death! They wrote letters to him, and Chekhov wrote completely boorish letters in response! Levitan wanted to challenge him to a duel. Chekhov's friend, the actor Lensky, wrote him such a derogatory letter that Chekhov burned it, for the first time in his life ashamed to keep the letter in his archive. Hellish reproaches and abuse rained down from all the acquaintances. Anton Pavlovich answered them even more boorishly, denying them with the words (literal quote): “My jumper is pretty, but Sofya Petrovna is not so beautiful and young!”
Well, Levitan was almost Sophia's official lover, he can be forgiven. They really had an affair and a joint summer on the Volga. Without a husband and strangers ... But the whole secular world did not respect and despise him until the end of Chekhov's life ... Did they know about the great Chekhov?
And in defense of the Jumper (and re-read the story!):
Sofya Petrovna was by no means a mediocre, frivolous jumper who burned her husband’s money and “draws a little” - this assessment is entirely on Chekhov’s conscience. Sofya Petrovna was an extremely talented and intelligent lady with a kind and open heart, everyone's favorite.
Hunters at rest - Perov. Canvas, oil. 119x183
There is a period in Perov's work when the master avoids sharp social scenes. He refers to life simple, ordinary, familiar. Among these works, the most familiar is the painting "Hunters at Rest".
In the center of the composition are three hunters, very different, but each of them is interesting and meaningful in its own way. The attention of two listeners was attracted by the passionate and fascinating story of an older, experienced hunter. In his posture, facial expressions, eyes, there is a holy faith in the "truth" of the story, which he decided to tell his comrades. Listeners react differently to the story. The young hunter greedily absorbs every word of his experienced comrade, the third participant - a middle-aged man - is skeptical, he questions every word of the narrator.
If you carefully consider the composition proposed by the author, the idea becomes clear. The artist showed a certain life cycle: youth eagerly knowing the world, absorbing it with faith in a miracle; then comes maturity and experience, when nothing is taken on faith and is questioned; maturity is replaced by old age, living on memories, constantly falling into the idealization of the past.
Behind a simple and clear work is a deep content, philosophical, difficult. Critics noted the squalor and tension that characterize the surrounding landscape. Anxious sky, flying birds, faded grass - everything speaks of autumn, falling asleep, anticipation of winter. Why did the artist choose such a gloomy landscape to frame his painting? Most likely, it was important for the author to concentrate the viewer's attention on the central figures of the picture, the background should not distract from the main thing in the work.
The heroes of the picture are real people, friends of the artist, who served as prototypes of hunters. As you know, the author himself loved hunting. Therefore, every detail of the picture is written with skill. In the lower left corner of the picture, we see a delightful hunting still life, which, on the one hand, fits organically into the overall composition, on the other hand, it may well be separated into a separate work, written with remarkable skill and realism.
The light in the picture is concentrated on the faces and hands of the characters. This old technique, from the time of the Renaissance, allows the artist to more fully reveal the inner world of his models. All hunters are clearly satisfied with the results of the hunt, as evidenced by the trophies depicted right there. The artist depicted people of different social origins, but all of them were united by hunting, which made them forget about the realities of life and completely surrender to the ancient craft.
Interestingly, the artist again turned to this subject and created another painting for the Russian Museum. The second version of the plot is more schematic, simpler, the color scheme is simpler.
It is known that some critics accused the artist of the fact that the characters depicted by him express excessively simulated emotions. However, having unraveled the author's intention, we can consider this quite justified. Such a technique allows you to more clearly describe the character and inner world of the characters, to reveal the symbolic component of the picture.
Serious passions burned around this work by master Vasily Perov from the moment it appeared: V. Stasov compared the canvas with the best hunting stories of I. Turgenev, and M. Saltykov-Shchedrin accused the artist of excessive theatricality and unnatural characters. In addition, in "Hunters on a Rest" everyone easily recognized the real prototypes - Perov's acquaintances. Despite the mixed reviews from critics, the picture became incredibly popular.
V. Perov. Self-portrait, 1870. Detail
Vasily Perov himself was a passionate hunter, and the topic of hunting was well known to him. In the 1870s he created the so-called "hunting series": the paintings "Birdcatcher", "Fisherman", "Botanist", "Pigeon", "Fishing". For "Ptitselov" (1870), he received the title of professor, as well as a teaching position at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. But the most striking and recognizable in this cycle, of course, was the painting "Hunters at Rest".
V. Perov. Birder, 1870
The canvas was exhibited for the first time at the 1st Traveling Exhibition and immediately caused conflicting responses. Critic V. Stasov admired the work. M. Saltykov-Shchedrin criticized the picture for the lack of immediacy and truth of life, for the affectation of emotions: “It’s as if some actor is present when the picture is shown, to whom the role instructs to speak to the side: this is a liar, and this gullible, inviting the viewer not to believe the liar hunter and have fun with the gullibility of the novice hunter. Artistic truth should speak for itself, and not through interpretation. But F. Dostoevsky did not agree with critical reviews: “What a charm! Of course, to explain - so the Germans will understand, but they will not understand, like us, that this is a Russian liar and that he is lying in Russian. After all, we almost hear and know what he is talking about, we know the whole turn of his lies, his style, his feelings.
Left: D. Kuvshinnikov. On the right is the central character *Hunters at rest*
The prototypes of the hunters were real people who knew Vasily Perov. The doctor Dmitry Kuvshinnikov, a great lover of rifle hunting, acted as a "liar", enthusiastically telling fables, the same one who also served as the prototype of Dr. Dymov in Chekhov's Jumping Girl. Kuvshinnikov's wife Sofya Petrovna was the mistress of the literary and artistic salon, which was often visited by V. Perov, I. Levitan, I. Repin, A. Chekhov and other famous artists and writers.
Left - V. Perov. Portrait of V. Bessonov, 1869. On the right - an incredulous listener, one of the *Hunters on a halt*
In the image of an ironically grinning hunter, Perov portrayed the doctor and amateur artist Vasily Bessonov, and the 26-year-old Nikolai Nagornov, a future member of the Moscow city council, served as the prototype for the young hunter, naively listening to hunting stories. This is confirmed in his memoirs by A. Volodicheva, the daughter of Nagornov. In 1962, she wrote to art critic V. Mashtafarov: “D. P. Kuvshinnikov was one of my father’s closest friends. They often went hunting for birds. My father had a dog, and therefore gathered with us: Dmitry Pavlovich, Nikolai Mikhailovich and Dr. Bessonov V.V. They are depicted by Perov (“Hunters at Rest”). Kuvshinnikov tells, father and Bessonov listen. Father - carefully, and Bessonov - with distrust ... ".
V. Perov. Hunters at rest, 1871. Fragment with game
Of great importance in this work are the gestures of the characters, with the help of which the artist creates psychological portraits of his heroes: the narrator’s outstretched hands illustrate his “terrible” story, a grinning commoner scratches his head in disbelief, the left hand of a young listener is tensely clenched, the right hand with a cigarette froze, which betrays enthusiasm and ingenuous horror with which he listens to fables. The prey of hunters depicted in the lower left corner could well become an independent still life with game, but the artist deliberately focused all his attention on the faces and hands of the characters, highlighting these accents with bright light.
I. Kramskoy. Portrait of V. Perov, 1881. Detail
Today, reproductions of this painting have become a traditional gift for avid hunters. The canvas painted by V. Perov in 1871 is now in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and a copy created in 1877 is in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
V. Perov. Hunters at Rest, 1877 copy
Secrets of great paintings: "Hunters at rest"Looking at the “Hunters at rest” by Vasily Perov, the modern viewer hardly notices that the picture depicts the same nonsense as in the hunting tales that one of the characters “poisons”.
Painting "Hunters at rest". Oil on canvas, 119 x 183 cm
Year of creation: 1871. Now kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
Two author's copies of the painting are in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and in the Nikolaev Regional Art Museum named after V.V. Vereshchagin in Ukraine.
“What a delight! Of course, to explain - so the Germans will understand, but they will not understand, like us, that this is a Russian liar and that he is lying in Russian. After all, we almost hear and know what he is talking about, we know the whole turn of his lies, his style, his feelings, ”Fyodor Dostoevsky praised the picture, admiring the expressiveness and reliability of the characters. However, the scene of the rest of the three comrades is not at all true in detail. The characters mishandle their weapons, and their equipment and loot belong to different types of hunting. It seems that the painter chose a topic in which he understood little.
In fact, Perov was well versed in hunting. The artist went to the beast, as his first biographer Nikolai Sobko put it, “at all times of the year and tirelessly,” later even sharing his experience in essays for the Nature and Hunting magazine, which was published by naturalist Leonid Sabaneev. Ultimately, the passion for hunting cost the artist his life: due to a cold caught in the forest, Perov developed consumption, from which he died before he was 50 years old.
And Perov created “Hunters at Rest” as an anecdote picture, so that the understanding viewer would laugh at it no less than at the very outrageous hunting stories. 
1. Skeptic. The peasant laughing at the story of the master, written from the doctor, amateur artist and writer Vasily Bessonov. Perov portrayed him as a commoner, emphasizing that the excitement of hunting, like this meal on the grass, unites the nobles and their servants.
2. Beginner. He listened to the narrator so much that he forgot to light a cigarette. Judging by the new sheepskin coat and expensive equipment that had not yet worn out in the forests, the character became interested in hunting recently. Perov wrote a gullible neophyte from 26-year-old Nikolai Nagornov, in whose house his friends Kuvshinnikov and Bessonov used to gather to go hunting together.
3. Hare-hare. Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valentin Golovin noted: the molting of the animal can be determined: the action takes place in late autumn. It is strange that the carcass was not damaged: according to the rules of canine hunting, the killed hare had to be chopped off (poked with a dagger between the shoulder blades), cut off (cut off the front paws) and trimmed (inserted into the saddle).
4. Grouse. A forest bird could not be killed on the same hunt as a hare, an inhabitant of the fields.
5. Vral. Perov's friend, police doctor Dmitry Kuvshinnikov, posed for the role of the landowner-narrator. In the 1880s-1890s, the doctor, together with his wife Sophia, organized a literary and artistic salon in his house. The Kuvshinnikovs and landscape painter Isaac Levitan, with whom Sophia cheated on her husband, became the prototypes for the heroes of Chekhov's story "The Jumper".
6. Boots. The beginner's shoes, as Professor Golovin noted, also betray the character's inexperience: it was very inconvenient to hunt in such high heels.
7. Binoculars. The narrator has binoculars of the old model, the first half of the 19th century, which indicates a solid hunting experience.
8. Horn. Used for canine hunting to pack hounds, but there is no sign of a flock of hounds. The only dog, according to different versions, is either a greyhound or a setter - a cop. On dog hunting, guns are not needed, since the dog takes the game. And on a rifle you don't need a horn.
9. Shotguns. An experienced hunter, in order not to clog the bore, will never put the gun with the muzzle on the ground. Especially if it is a first-class, expensive weapon from the English company Enfield, like here.
Artist Vasily Perov
1834 - was born on January 2 (new style) in Tobolsk. The artist was the illegitimate son of Baron Grigory Kridener, who served there as a provincial prosecutor.
1841 - for beautiful handwriting received from the teacher the nickname Perov, which became a surname.
1853–1862 - student at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
1861 - painted the paintings "Rural religious procession at Easter" and "Sermon in the village."
1862–1864 - visited Germany and France
1862–1869 - was married to Elena Shaynes, three children were born in the marriage, but only son Vladimir survived to adulthood.
1866 - created "Troika" and "Arrival of a governess in a merchant's house".
1870–1877 - was a member of the Association of Traveling Exhibitions.
1872 - remarried to Elizaveta Druganova.
1882 - died of consumption in Kuzminki (now a district of Moscow).
