Perov painted the painting Hunters at a Rest in 1871. In this work, the artist depicted three hunters resting at a rest stop after a successful hunt. The artist Perov, it must be admitted, was himself a passionate lover of hunting.
More than once in his life, the artist saw such scenes, because he himself was a participant in all sorts of funny tales, gossip and unprecedented stories about hunting with his fellow hunters after a difficult but interesting hunt. To display such a scene on canvas, to show the different characters of the characters, without any beating around the bush, one might even say so, is a topic close to the spirit of the common people.
As a result, in the picture there are three hunters with prey, not two or four, but three, in general, a holy trinity against the backdrop of an evening, somewhat dull landscape, birds are still flying in the cloudy sky, a slight breeze is felt, clouds are gathering.
The artist carefully described the texture of the still life objects, without a doubt everything looks alive without a hitch, there are hunting trophies, a well-killed hare, partridges, hunting rifles, a horn with a net and other hunting paraphernalia necessary for hunting. But this is not the main thing in the picture; Perov’s task in this work is still three hunters with their different characteristics.
The most pronounced figure in the film Hunters at a Rest is, of course, an elderly-looking hunter, passionately telling his companions about his obvious or not quite adventures on the hunt, a fragment of what he tells approximately: It’s an annoyance that, spreading his hands to the side, he missed the second hare and it was already twice the size of the first one, and I successfully shot the first one. 
The second comrade, who is in middle age, also an experienced hunter, listens ironically to the elderly hunter, scratches his ear, one might say that the narrator clearly makes him smile sarcasticly with his hunting, yet another untrue tale, and he clearly does not trust him, but at the same time it is still interesting to listen , he thinks.
The young hunter on the right listens attentively and trustingly to the tales of the old seasoned hunter, quite possibly he himself also wants to tell something about his partridge hunt, but the old man clearly does not allow him to say a word.
The plot of the film Hunters at a Rest turned out to be directly anecdotal, relative to other works of Perov. Contemporaries reacted differently to the master’s work; Saltykov-Shchedrin criticized the artist for the unnatural-looking faces of the hunters, as if they were actors and not real hunters. And Stasov V.V., on the contrary, enthusiastically admired the picture, comparing it with the stories of the writer Turgenev.
Be that as it may, the people fell in love with the painting Hunters at a Rest; the hunters themselves speak very enthusiastically about this work. Nowadays, copies of this painting are considered a gift standard for avid hunters. Therefore, in a good hunter’s house there is always a similar plot hanging on the wall, and sometimes with other faces of the characters in the picture. In the work of the artist Perov, this work and the paintings: Dovecote, Fisherman and Birdcatcher are associated with some departure from the highly critical paintings of the 1860s.
He left many of his famous works to descendants. On the canvases the master depicted ordinary people who are sad, happy, working, and going out hunting. Not everyone knows that the painter Perov himself was not averse to wandering through the forest with a gun over his shoulder. The painting “Hunters at Rest” was painted by him with skill, and it shows.
The future artist was born illegitimate. And although his parents soon got married in church, his father was unable to give the boy his last name. At first the child's name was Vasily Vasilyev - this was the name of his godfather. But why did he become Perov? Turns out it's a nickname. The literacy teacher gave it to the boy, noting with this word the child’s diligence and ability to use a pen for writing.
But Vasily was not only a diligent student. The boy became addicted to drawing from childhood. He loved to watch how a real artist, whom the child’s father invited to their home, painted.
When Perov took it, he realized that this was his calling. Despite his poor eyesight, which deteriorated after suffering from smallpox, Perov became an artist. First he studied at the Arzamas art school, then graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Some of the artist's works
For his work, the artist was awarded silver and At the beginning of his work, the painter reflected the sad aspects of the life of the people, painting such paintings as “The Arrival of the Stanovoy,” “Scene at the Grave,” “Drowned Women,” and “Troika.” In the middle and second half of his creative journey, the artist paints more joyful paintings. “Holiday in the vicinity of Paris”, “Songbook Seller”, “Scene by the Railway” - all these works were created by Perov.
The painting “Hunters at a Rest” was painted by Vasily Grigorievich in 1871 and belongs to the late period of his work.
Picture: first character
One glance at the canvas is enough to see: it depicts 3 people. It is interesting that V. G. Perov drew them from real people. The painting “Hunters at a Rest” depicts three doctors who, in their free time from work, loved to hunt.
The eldest in the company sits on the left. This is D.P. Kuvshinnikov - a lover of rifle hunting, a famous Moscow doctor. Turning our gaze to the canvas, we see that Kuvshinnikov is telling something interesting. His eyes are wide open, and his hands imitate the claws of a predator. Apparently, he tells his young friend how he was once hunting and was attacked by a lynx, wolf or bear. Of course, the hunter defeated this animal and showed remarkable abilities.
Perov perfectly conveyed the facial expressions, position of the head, hands, and body of his character. The painting “Hunters at Rest” represents a scene of friends relaxing and reflects the liveliness of their conversation.
Second character
The grateful listener sitting on the canvas on the right also has his own real prototype. This is Nikolai Mikhailovich Nagornov, who was 26 years old at the time of the creation of the canvas. In life, he was a friend of D.P. Kuvshinnikov and also worked in medicine. It is interesting that a year later this young man married the niece of the famous writer Tolstoy.
But for now he was completely absorbed by the elder hunter’s story. He listens to the story of the man sitting opposite him and looks at him with all his eyes. The young man froze, he was not interested in either the meal or the cigarette he was holding in his right hand. And the narrator is trying his best, he even took off his hat because he felt hot.
Third hero
The canvas that Perov wrote, “Hunters at a Rest,” conveys all the moods very realistically. The picture introduces us to another hero, whose prototype was the doctor V.V. Bessonov. As you might guess, in life he was a friend of Kuvshinnikov and Nagornov.
On the canvas, Bessonov grins. From the expression on his face one can understand that he has heard his friend’s hunting tale more than once and does not believe it. The man scratches himself behind his ear, it is clear what this gesture means. He tries to distract himself so as not to laugh and tell his young comrade the truth. Perov knew all this too. “Hunters at Rest” is a picture that allows you to mentally transport yourself to the end of the 19th century, become participants in an interesting scene and speculate on what the main characters of the canvas are talking about.
Surrounding landscape, small details
Everything is important in artistic work. After it becomes clear who exactly is depicted on the canvas and what the men are talking about, it is interesting to look at what surrounds them and figure out what time of year the action takes place. The description of the painting “Hunters at Rest” will help with this. Perov most likely painted the time of early spring.
It is clear that the grass is withered, this is how it appears before us when the snow melts. But in some places it remained: in the background, on the field, small white islands are visible. The men are dressed warmly, so they are not cold that evening.
All this is clearly conveyed by the painting “Hunters at Rest”. Perov V. and his friends loved to walk through the forest with a gun. The artist preserved his impressions for centuries.
"Hunters at Rest" (1871)
When I tell you my True Tales, I remind myself of a left-wing hunter, and my friends - both distrustful, like the average one, and heeding, like the right one.
The picture is known to absolutely every resident of our country. It is in textbooks, on the walls of many houses, even on candy wrappers. We know it by heart. Still, I’ll tell you a couple of points that you may not know.
"To be fully an artist, one must be a creator; and in order to be a creator, you need to study life, you need to educate your mind and heart, educate not by studying official models, but by vigilant observation and exercise in reproducing types and their inherent inclinations... By this study, you need to tune the sensitivity to perceive impressions in such a way that not a single object rushed past you without being reflected in you, as in a clean, correct mirror... An artist must be a poet, a dreamer, and most importantly, a tireless worker... Anyone who wants to be an artist must become a complete fanatic, living and feeding on art alone and only art.” .
V.G. Perov "Our teachers"
Vasily Grigorievich 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 his 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 poems. It was the latter that became the reason that some time after the birth of Vasily, the baron was dismissed for free-thinking poems.
Let's return now to the picture.
And Perov did not write it alone, but in tandem with another famous artist - Alexei Savrasov. They taught together at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. We don’t know Savrsov’s share, but there is an interesting point.
Perov wrote two versions of “Hunters at a 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 all turn out to be real people! Friends of the artist.
The doctor Dmitry Kuvshinnikov was depicted in his famous painting “Hunters at a Rest” by the artist V.G. Perov. The hunter-storyteller on the left is him. The other two characters in the picture are based on Kuvshinnikov’s friends: the skeptic hunter is a doctor and amateur artist Vasily Vladimirovich Bessonov, and the young hunter is Nikolai Mikhailovich Nagornov, a relative of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (he was married to his niece, Varvara Valerianovna Tolstoy).
http://proekt-wms.narod.ru/moscow/2_4.htm
The audience really liked the picture, but some celebrities sharply criticized it.
They didn't like unnaturally exaggerated emotions
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin criticized the picture for its lack of spontaneity: “It’s as if when the picture is shown there is some actor present, whose role instructs him to speak aside: this is a liar, and this is a gullible one, inviting the viewer not to believe the liar hunter and have fun at the gullibility novice hunter."
The landscape in the film is written much better; compositionally it is closely related to the characters. There is something alarming in the surrounding nature - in the piercing wind, in the withered autumn grass, in the gloomy horizon. The sky is overcast and a thunderstorm cannot be avoided.
The most striking figure is, of course, the elderly hunter on the left, passionately telling his companions about his hunting adventures. The second hunter, who is in the middle, middle-aged, listens to the elderly hunter with a grin, scratches his ear, one might say that the narrator is clearly making him laugh with another tale, and he clearly does not trust him, but at the same time he is still interested in listening. The young hunter, on the right, listens attentively and trustingly 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 allow him to say a word.
I am not a hunter, but a friend is a hunter, he told me that there are many inaccuracies in the picture.
The dog in the background is apparently a setter, and they don’t hunt hares with cops. The black grouse is lying right, this is its 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, not in the field), hunting for hare is closed. But I don’t know whether hunting was opened in that century. He also said that a self-respecting hunter would not throw his gun like that - the barrel would become clogged and the trigger would break. These are the grumblings from the modern hunter.
I found this story about the painting on the Internet, but I lost the link. But read:
“Hunters at a 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 as a copy for 22 years...
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 painting was bought by the famous collector Tretyakov, the artist wrote a second version for the Tsar, and now it is in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Sensation - the third version of the “hunters” was discovered 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 - this is exactly the manner in which Vasily Perov worked. The “Nicholas” painting is the same size and was painted in the same year, 1871, as the work that is kept 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 research results 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 V.G. 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 painting as “Hunters at Rest” in the 19th century. The picture is literally stuffed with encrypted messages, mathematical formulas and prophetic predictions.
Many years ago, employees of the Russian Museum noticed that female caretakers gathered at the end of the working day in the Perov Hall, not far from the Hunters at Rest. The work was re-done several times, but the result was the same. And the caretakers, and museum visitors, and excursions mostly grouped and spent time near this painting.
Some research was done that revealed a real anomaly. The air temperature in this painting was always 2.6 - 2.8 degrees higher than in the other halls. The mechanical clock in Perov’s painting slowed down, and the quartz mechanisms began to lose rhythm and even stopped. The picture also had a strange effect on people.
The canvas was subjected to infrared radiation and x-rays. The photograph showed an image of three men who very much resembled someone. The photo was printed and...the Yalta Conference arose! On the left, slightly leaning 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. Having superimposed 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 his right hand rests on the coast of Normandy, where the Allied landing took place a little over 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 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 in a single line, strangely resembles the outlines of defeated Japan. And if we connect the eyes of three hunters with the same line, we will get the exact geometry of the Bermuda Triangle.
Perov ideally positioned his characters according to the parts of the world in relation to the gun, which lies slightly to the right and below the center of the picture and signifies the equator. This is the first thing that catches your eye...
This is 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’s clear that schoolchildren and studio students are forced to write abstracts about the picture! Click on Google - and it gives them my post! They are happy. Unlike my supposedly 500 supposed friends. It is interesting and useful for them to read the lines of an old fart... So I will add a little to that post.
Remember about the main narrator from the picture?
By Dymov they meant the doctor Dmitry Pavlovich Kuvshinnikov - a truly selfless physician and ascetic. Of course, he was not quiet and intimidated. And constant home parties did not bother him; he actively participated in them. The artistic bohemia respected Kuvshinnikov - suffice it to say that it was he, Dmitry Kuvshinnikov, who is depicted in Perov’s famous painting “Hunters at a Rest” as the main storyteller. 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 specifically about Kushinnikov’s wife! Jumping Olga Ivanovna’s name was actually Sofya Petrovna Kuvshinnikova. Here is her portrait by the artist Levitan:
I. Levitan “Portrait of Sofia Petrovna Kuvshinnikova”, 1888
And she created a gigantic scandal in Moscow! Many prominent people of that time stopped shaking hands with Anton Palych and gave up their 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, actor Lensky, wrote him such a derogatory letter that Chekhov burned it, for the first time in his life he was ashamed to keep the letter in his archive. Hellish reproaches and abuse rained down from all my acquaintances. Anton Pavlovich answered them even more boorishly, denying himself with the words (literal quote): “My jumping lady 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 summer together on the Volga. Without a husband and strangers... But the entire secular world did not respect and despise Chekhov until the end of his life... Didn’t 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 through her husband’s money and “drew 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.
Vasily Perov is a famous Russian genre artist of the second half of the 19th century. One of the artist’s most famous paintings is “Hunters at Rest,” painted in 1871. Why did this particular painting become so popular, where are the author’s repetitions from “Hunters at Rest” stored, and how is one of the characters in the painting connected with the writer Leo Tolstoy?
Interestingly, Vasily Perov was skeptical about his painting and did not highly value his work, unlike his contemporaries. For example, about the painting “Hunter at Rest,” Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote: “The painting has long been known to everyone; one lies ardently and deliberately, the other listens and believes with all his might, and the third does not believe anything, lies down right there and laughs... What a delight!<…>We can almost hear and know what he is talking about, we know the whole turn of his lies, his style, his feelings.”
Vasily Perov “Hunters at a rest”, 1871
Vasily Perov managed to create a masterpiece. In one painting, “Hunter at Rest,” which the artist intended as an anecdote, he combines several painting genres at once: an everyday scene, landscape, and still life. In the center against the backdrop of autumn fields are three hunters. An elderly, poor nobleman talks animatedly about his hunting exploits. The young man listens to him trustingly, but is so carried away by the story that he forgets to light a cigarette. And the peasant, reclining in the center, only grins ironically - he has already heard enough of such stories.
The artist depicted his friends in the painting. The narrator is doctor Dmitry Kuvshinnikov. By the way, after the painting was exhibited at the first traveling exhibition, the name Kuvshinnikov became popular in literary, artistic and theatrical circles. Writers and artists often gathered at his house, among them Chekhov, Levitan and others. The skeptic hunter is another friend of Perov, a doctor and amateur artist Vasily Bessonov. The prototype of the young hunter was the 26-year-old doctor Nikolai Nagornov, who later married Varvara Tolstoy, the niece of the great writer. It turned out that three doctors became hunters.
The original painting “Hunters at a Rest” (oil on canvas 119x183) is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery. In 1877, the artist painted a smaller original copy, which is kept in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. There were legends that Perov made three paintings of Hunters at Rest. The third option was found in Nikolaev in Ukraine. For more than 20 years, employees of the Nikolaev Regional Art Museum named after. V. Vereshchagina were sure that the painting in their collection was an excellent copy, because in Soviet times Perov’s masterpiece was very popular, a huge number of copies and reproductions of “Hunters” appeared. However, in 2004, the museum was visited by Kiev restorer Nikolai Titov, who stated without a doubt that the canvas and paints belonged to the 19th century. The painting was sent for research, during which art critics found out that it was a repetition by the author. After restoration, a copy of “Hunters at Rest” was included in the main exhibition of the museum.
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The artist Vasily Perov had a difficult fate. He was the illegitimate son of the provincial prosecutor Baron Georgy Kridener. The exact date of birth of the artist is not known - January 2 or 4, 1833. And although after Perov’s birth his parents got married, Vasily could not bear his father’s surname. For a long time, the documents indicated the surname “Vasiliev”, given by the name of the godfather.
After the baron's resignation, his family moved to Samara province. Here little Vasily was sent to study with a sexton. He made the greatest progress in penmanship, for which he received the nickname Perov, which stuck to him for the rest of his life.
Ivan Kramskoy “Portrait of Vasily Perov”, 1881
Vasily wanted to study painting, but his parents resisted this for a long time. Ultimately, Perov left for Moscow in 1852 and entered the School of Painting and Sculpture. In 1862, the artist married Elena Shanes and went with his family to Paris at the expense of the Academy. But two years later the artist returned to his homeland; he was not close to the genre scenes of French life. Perov was more interested in the life of ordinary people in Russia. In the 1860s, he created paintings in which he revealed the contradictions of modern life - “Troika”, “Seeing off a Dead Man”, “Scene at the Post Station” and others. In them he tried to show the plight of hired workers.
Vasily Perov “Troika”, 1866
In 1869-1870, a tragedy occurred in the artist’s life that influenced his work. Perov’s wife and two children died from the epidemic, only his son Vladimir survived. The painter began to depict a simple person, his joys of everyday life. The artist’s passion for hunting was reflected in several paintings - “Fisherman”, “Birder” and others. In addition to paintings on everyday themes, Vasily Perov created historical paintings and portraits of Dostoevsky, Ostrovsky and his other contemporaries.
Vasily Perov “Portrait of F. M. Dostoevsky”, 1872
In 1872, Perov married again. Towards the end of his life, Vasily Georgievich began to study literature and wrote stories. Vasily Perov died of consumption in 1882 in Moscow. The artist was buried in the monastery cemetery in the Danilov Monastery. The painter's son from his first marriage, Vladimir Perov, also became an artist.
The publication uses materials from the encyclopedia “Treasures of Russian Museums” and from the official website of the Nikolaev Art Museum. V. Vereshchagin.
Plot
What good hunt is complete without gatherings and telling tales? Vasily Perov, as a keen hunter and himself had been to such meetings more than once, almost certainly also told adventure stories about the power of the beast, his prowess and luck. The passion that can be read on the faces of the characters invites the viewer to dialogue; we are drawn into the scene, as if we are reading from the lips what exactly the singer is saying.
“What a beauty! Of course, to explain it, the Germans will understand, but they won’t understand, like we do, that he is a Russian liar and that he is lying in Russian. We can 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 film.
"Hunters at rest." (wikipedia.org)
Contemporaries easily recognized the artist’s acquaintances in the characters. In real life, all three were comrades and colleagues. Doctor Dmitry Kuvshinnikov posed for the narrator, doctor Vasily Bessonov posed for the “experienced” one, and 26-year-old doctor Nikolai Nagornov posed for the newcomer. Together with Perov, they often went hunting.
The still life is painted in detail. A simple snack is forgotten behind a fascinating story. However, are the narrator and his listeners so experienced? An excellent gun lies carelessly in the grass, which is unacceptable. The horn, which was used for hound hunting, looks superfluous - there are no signs of a pack of hounds, that is, the equipment was collected without particularly understanding its purpose. The heel of the shoe is high, which is not convenient for hunting. It is obvious that none of the hunters are masters; they are all amateurs.
The colors of the landscape and the brown hare among the prey indicate that the events take place in late autumn. However, the hazel grouse lying right there makes it obvious that the artist himself is lying to us: both a forest bird and a hare, an inhabitant of fields and steppe zones, could not be killed on the same hunt.
The landscape, which plays the role of a “listener” here, was completed by Alexey Savrasov. Perov reported this in one of his letters, without specifying exactly how much work was completed by Savrasov.
"The Birdcatcher", 1870. (wikipedia.org)
The canvas “Hunters at a Rest” was created in the late period of Perov’s work. At this time, the artist departed from his usual themes of the difficult lot of the peasantry, the hypocrisy of the authorities and clergy, and the general disorganization of the country. The image of a peasant-contemplator, in unity with nature, comes to the fore.
The fate of the artist
Vasily Perov, as the illegitimate son of a Tobolsk prosecutor, received the surname of his godfather - Vasilyev, and the pseudonym with which he entered the history of art was given to him by a clerk who taught literacy: “Look at how he writes letters beautifully, as if he was born with a pen in his hand. And therefore I will call him Perov.”
"Rural religious procession at Easter." (wikipedia.org)
During Vasily’s childhood, the family moved often: his father was fired from service and it was necessary to find a new job. At the age of 10, the boy suffered from smallpox, which affected his vision - it never fully recovered.
Already in childhood, Vasily decided to become an artist. He was sent to study in Arzamas, but was expelled from school for throwing a plate of hot porridge at a classmate. At the age of 19, he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Life was hard. In winter, he even skipped classes - he had nothing to wear in the cold. I barely had enough to pay for classes and rent; I lived from hand to mouth. If it were not for the help of one of the teachers, Perov would not have been able to complete the course.
Perov was one of those rare painters for whom a retirement trip to Italy did not benefit. He returned ahead of schedule, declaring that he did not understand Europe and could not create anything worthwhile. Perov spent the rest of his life in Moscow, where, despite his growing popularity, he continued to struggle with poverty.
"Troika". (wikipedia.org)
At the initial stage of the Peredvizhniki movement, Perov worked closely with them. But as soon as he realized that their exhibitions did not bring him the financial peace he needed so much, he left the partnership. The last decade of Perov's life was marked by a state close to depression: he edited early works and looked for new ideas. Those subjects that made his name - the life of the streets, the faces of ordinary people, grayness, dirt and poverty, which some did not talk about, while others did not know at all - no longer fascinated the artist. He was disappointed. Perov tried to prove himself in historical painting and genre scenes, but many of his ideas remained at the sketch stage. The artist’s latest work was the large-scale painting “Nikita Pustosvyat”.
In 1882, during his favorite hunt, Perov caught a cold, the disease developed into consumption, from which the artist died at the age of 48.