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This is a “Portrait of an Egyptian woman with her child” (1875) by Konstantin Makovsky (1839 - 1920).

This one is by Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) and it’s called Demon Seated in a Garden (1890).

This is probably the most famous of Vrubel’s works. A son of a military officer Vrubel studied law for several years and graduated University with honours. But law didn’t interest him at all. Apart from studying law Vrubel attended classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg. Main themes of his art are Demonic themes.

Basically, those demonic themes were inspired by a long Romantic poem by a russian poet Mikhail Lermontov. The poem described the carnal passion of “an eternal nihilistic spirit” for a Georgian girl Tamara.

Most conservative critics accused him of “wild ugliness”, whereas the art patron Savva Mamontov praised the Demon series as “fascinating symphonies of a genius” and commissioned Vrubel to paint decorations for his private opera and mansions of his friends. Unfortunately the Demon, like other Vrubel’s works, doesn’t look as it did when it was painted, as the artist added bronze powder to his oils in order to achieve particularly luminous, glistening effects.

This is one by my all time favorites Boris Kustodiev called Christmas bargain (1918)

I'be already mentioned Kustodiev couple of times here

And here and here

Kustodiev’s works are always bright and colorful. Sometimes they are a bit “candy-like”.No one can compare to him in painting russian winter and winter holidays. This painting above shows a traditional Christmas bargain where people would go to have fun, find gifts and buy Christmas trees. You can how many people are out there.

Detail of the Last day of Pompeii (1830-1833) by Karl Bryullov (1799-1852). Head of a girl who is told to be a young bride.Try to spot her here: