This moving and sad image describes three small peasants of poor families who are dragging a heavy burden, harnessed in the manner of draft horses. In the middle there is a blond boy.
Perov was looking for a child as a model for his painting, until he met a woman with a 12-year-old son named Vasya, who was going through Moscow on a pilgrimage. Vasia remained the only consolation of his mother, who buried her husband and other children.
"The Troika" GV Perov
At first he did not want his son to be a model for the painter, but then he consented. However, immediately after the completion of the image, the boy died ... It is known that after the death of his son, the poor woman went to Perov, imploring to sell her the portrait with the image of her beloved son, but the painting was already hung in the Tretyakov Gallery. True, Perov responded to the mother's pain and painted for her a portrait of Vasya.
There are several masterpieces of Russian
painting, which also have sad stories
"Portrait of Lopukhina"
Vladimir Borovikovsky
At the time of Pushkin, the portrait of Maria Lopukhina was one of the main ones "horror stories".
The girl lived a short and unhappy life, and after posing for the portrait she died. His father, Ivan Lopukhin, was a famous mystic and master of the Masonic lodge.
Therefore, the rumor spread that managed to attract the spirit of the deceased daughter in this portrait. And if the girls looked at the image, they would die soon. According to the saloon version of the gossip, the portrait of Mary has ruined at least ten noblewomen ...
When the negativity ended, Tretyakov bought the portrait for his gallery in 1880. There was no significant mortality among visitors. Conversations also calmed down. But the sediment remained.
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