🖼 Russian artists in Dumbledore's office.

On the walls of the Hogwarts director's office among the paintings there are “Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible” (1897) by Viktor Vasnetsov, “Portrait of the writer Nestor Vasilyevich Kukolnik” (1836) by Karl Bryullov and two paintings by Ilya Repin - “Rest. Portrait of Vera Alekseevna Repina, the artist’s wife” (1882) and “Protodeacon” (1877).

Константин Васильев (художник-славянист)
Konstantin Vasiliev (Slavist artist)

🔻Since childhood, Vasiliev loved fairy tales and folk epics and visited the Tretyakov Gallery as often as it was possible.

🔻In 1969, Konstantin Vasiliev painted the painting “Northern Eagle” (pic 1). A friend told Konstantin that he had seen a large eagle in the forest and described its piercing gaze. When Vasiliev removed the coverlet from the canvas, silence reigned in the room. The friends expected to see any bird, but ... they didn’t expect to see a man with an ax. The viewers were literally pierced by an eagle gaze of a courageous man, the ruler of the taiga, inspired by nature...

🔻His paintings depict Russian and Scandinavian gods and heroes of legends and sagas. Although there are many of his paintings that depict ordinary Russian people. Severe, strong, taciturn, discreet and unshakable.

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