Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov was a Russian landscape painter connected with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist painters. His contemporaries would call him the “Knight of Beauty” as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of art.
Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov was a Russian landscape painter connected with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist painters. His contemporaries would call him the “Knight of Beauty” as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of art.