Mikhail Nesterov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov is a representative of the Moscow school of painting. He was a student of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Nesterov was born and spent his childhood in Bashkiria, in the city of Ufa.
The painting “In Aksakov’s Homeland” was created by him in his native Bashkiria in 1923. And it is called “In Aksakov’s Homeland” because the well-known writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov was born there. Among his works is an autobiographical book, “Family Chronicle,” as well as books about hunting. Aksakov was a penetrating poet of Russian nature. And on Nesterov’s canvas, the nature “appears before us as ‘cleansed,’ endowed with elevated epiphany, unperturbed calm.” Behind the mountain there is a temple. And the hermit monk who heads for it. And the road leading to the temple.
Mikhail Nesterov grew up in a very religious merchant family. This fact has put its imprint on the work of Nesterov the artist. About 22 years of his life, he devoted to the painting of icons and murals on church walls. He painted the Marfo-Marininsky Monastery in Moscow, the Church of Alexander Nevsky in Abastumani (Georgia) and other places of worship.
After the Bolshevik Revolution, religious themes in art were banned. And Nesterov began to paint portraits and created an entire gallery of deep and sharp portraits of famous figures of science and culture.
M. V. Nesterov at the Museum of Russian Art (Prof. A. Abrahamyan’s collection):
“Tenderness”,1906
“Katerina Nesterova”. Study ,1919
“In Aksakov’s Homeland”, 1923