Russian Art. Art and Faith

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Pavel Ryzhenko




Pavel Ryzhenko. A Moment of Royal Contemplation. 2005


Pavel Ryzhenko. Aleksandr Nevsky (From the Triptych ‘The Shining Russian Land’). 2009


Pavel Ryzhenko. The Victory of Peresvet. 2005


Pavel Ryzhenko. The Prayer of Aleksandr Peresvet Before the Battle
Aleksandr-Peresvet was a schemamonk who resumed the path of a warrior for the Battle of Kulikovo, where he fell bravely fighting the Mongols. The Church blessed him in this endeavour, for the Orthodox Church is NOT made up of pacifists. In fact, "Zakon Bozhii" ("The Law of God") condemns "conscientous objectors", seeing in their attitude a radical lack of love towards neighbour and community.


Pavel Ryzhenko. After the Battle on the Neva (From the Triptych “The Shining Russian Land”). 2009


Pavel Ryzhenko. The Farewell of the Tsar to His Troops (From the Triptych “Imperial Golgotha”). 2004


Pavel Ryzhenko. The Last Judgement. 2007




Prayer

Prayer is not words, it is not a formula that can be learnt. It is an attitude that must grow organically in one's soul. That takes time... and not a short time, either.

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Vasili Nesterenko. An Elder from Mount Athos. 1998

Athos is the heart of the Orthodox Church, and, after a period of decline, there is a great revival of monasticism there, praise God! The prayers of the elders, not the writings of intellectuals, sustain the Church.


Konstantin Savitsky. To War. 1888

Russian troops departing for the Russo-Turkish War of 1878-79, when the Orthodox armies liberated the Balkans from the infidel Turk. Glory to their memory!

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Russian painter Mikhail Nesterov

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Vasili Nesterenko. A Portrait of Patriarch Aleksei of Moscow and all the Russias. 1996

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A Living Church (Valery Sichkov, 2005)


St Amvrosy of Optina (Saida Afonina, 2009)


Grandpa’s Medals (Mikhail Zautrennikov, 2005)


Baba Anya (Dmitri Petrov, 2004)


An Étude for “Ivan Grozny” (2) (Sergei Kirillov, 1989)


Knights of Orthodoxy (Dmitri Shmarin, 2007)


A River in Spring (Dmitri Shmarin, 2001)


Baptism (Dmitri Petrov, 2004)

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A Country Road (Pavel Ryzhenko, undated (contemporary))

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Pavel Ryzhenko. The Time of Troubles. 2003

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A Wreath (From the Triptych “Repentance”) (Pavel Ryzhenko, 2004)

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A Secret of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich (Pavel Ryzhenko, 2005)

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On the Kulikovo Field (Pavel Ryzhenko, 2005)

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andrei ryabushkin

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the bee keeper...Ivan Kramskoy.

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Nesterov, death of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky.


he Volga Bargehaulers). 1873

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, by his constant portraitist Ilya Repin (1901)


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[Милан Меденица :)]

nice theme, indeed  0442_feel

i like especially the last one, and the others, but not the one called The Last Judgement by Pavel Ryzhenko. it is very political, personal and not true, thought i will grant him the benefit of artistic freedom.