Photo, Print, Drawing Potomstvennyĭ dvori︠a︡nin, kavaler Stanislava na shee. Irkutsk. Потомственный дворянин, кавалер Станислава на шее. Иркутск.
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Title
- Potomstvennyĭ dvori︠a︡nin, kavaler Stanislava na shee. Irkutsk.
Other Title
- Потомственный дворянин, кавалер Станислава на шее. Иркутск.
Translated Title
- Nobleman by Birth, Knight of the Order of Saint Stanislaus. Irkutsk.
Summary
- Boris Vasilievich Smirnov (1881-1954) was a Russian artist who in 1904 traveled by prisoner transport from western Russia across Siberia. Along the way he created a series of drawings and watercolors of the people and places he encountered. Best known as a portraitist, Smirnov focused on the faces of the men and women he met, who included exiles, prisoners, settlers from Ukraine and western Russia, local military and civilian officials, peasants and merchants. His works from this period also include a handful of drawings of houses and landscapes. The sketches were made in the Ural Mountains, Irkutsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, and in villages along the route. The details of Smirnov's journey are sketchy. Some accounts say that he traveled along the Great Siberian Road as a volunteer on the way to the front in the Russo-Japanese War. Other accounts say that he was an exile, possibly sent to Siberia for refusing to be conscripted into the army. The Great Siberian Road, depicted in several of Smirnov's drawings, was the route from Moscow to China via Siberia. Smirnov's collection of 99 graphic items is preserved in the Novosibirsk State Museum of Regional History and Folklife. The collection was acquired by the museum from the artist in 1950. It was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers project in the early 2000s. The complete collection is presented in the World Digital Library. World Digital Library.
Names
- Smirnov, Boris Vasil'evich, , 1881-1954 , artist.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1904
Headings
- - Smirnov
- - grafika
- - portret
- - ėtnografii︠a︡
- - Sibir'
- - Irkutsk
- - Fur garments
- - Hats
- - Medals
- - Nobility
- - Portrait drawings
- - Portraits
- - Russian Federation
- - Irkutsk Oblast
- - Смирнов
- - графика
- - портрет
- - этнография
- - Сибирь
- - Иркутск
Notes
- - Avtorskai︠a︡ podpis' - nizhniĭ levyĭ ugol (chernyĭ karandash). Tyl'nai︠a︡ storona lista: nabrosok chelovecheskoĭ figury, sverkhu - avtorskai︠a︡ nadpis': "Potomstvennyĭ dvori︠a︡nin Irkutsk 1903" (skoropis'; karandash). Tyl'nai︠a︡ storona paspartu sverkhu - avtorskai︠a︡ nadpis': "khud. Smirnov B.V. Potomstvennyĭ dvori︠a︡nin kavaler Anny (zacherknuto) Stanislava na shee Irkutsk ris. 1904 g." (skoropis'; chernyĭ karandash).
- - Original image at: Novosibirsk State Museum of Regional History and Folklife
- - Авторская подпись - нижний левый угол (черный карандаш). Тыльная сторона листа: набросок человеческой фигуры, сверху - авторская надпись: "Потомственный дворянин Иркутск 1903" (скоропись; карандаш). Тыльная сторона паспарту сверху - авторская надпись: "худ. Смирнов Б.В. Потомственный дворянин кавалер Анны (зачеркнуто) Станислава на шее Иркутск рис. 1904 г." (скоропись; черный карандаш).
Medium
- 1 drawing : sauce ; 27.3 x 21.2 cm.
Source Collection
- Boris Smirnov Print Collection
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2018688219
Online Format
- image