Tag: Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky

Views of an old Siberia that isn’t coming back. Watercolors by artist Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky who was a native of Tobolsk. Living from 1833 to 1892, he was also an illustrator.

Dancing game in northern Russia. Kurgan near Tobolsk, western Siberia, from an ethnographic album about life in western Siberia. by 1892. Siberian/Russian. Watercolor on paper. Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, artist (1833-1892). Signed in Cyrillic on the lower left. Image © 2022 Dorotheum GmbH & Co KG. Fair use license, via https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/7129105/
 Two summer tents with three Khanty women seated in or just outside them. One woman holds a child. From a series of works created to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Tobolsk and the annexation of Siberia to Russia, which was celebrated in 1885. ca. 1885. Siberian/Russian. Watercolor on paper. Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, artist (1833-1892). Image © 2022 William Reese Company.. Fair use license, via https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM46028/mikhail-stepanovich-znamensky/three-watercolors-showing-scenes-of-the-khanty-people-a-northe
Three Khanty people in traditional clothing standing in a dining room, with a Russian official seated on the left; a portrait of the Tsar hangs on the wall in the background and an animal skin is draped on the table. From a series of works created to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Tobolsk and the annexation of Siberia to Russia, which was celebrated in 1885. ca. 1885. Siberian/Russian. Watercolor on paper. Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, artist (1833-1892). Image © 2022 William Reese Company.. Fair use license, via https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM46028/mikhail-stepanovich-znamensky/three-watercolors-showing-scenes-of-the-khanty-people-a-northe
 Winter snowscape showing a man with three reindeer standing outside a log cabin. From a series of works created to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Tobolsk and the annexation of Siberia to Russia, which was celebrated in 1885. ca. 1885. Siberian/Russian. Watercolor on paper. Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, artist (1833-1892). Image © 2022 William Reese Company.. Fair use license, via https://www.williamreesecompany.com/pages/books/WRCAM46028/mikhail-stepanovich-znamensky/three-watercolors-showing-scenes-of-the-khanty-people-a-northe