Русская портретная живопись петровского времени

The book is dedicated to the art of portrait painters of the end of the 17th - the first quarter of the 18th century - the time of the formation of Russian secular culture. In the atmosphere of the stormy transformations of Peter the Great, new social ideals took shape. The assertion of the value of an individual socially significant personality determined the leading position that the portrait genre occupied in the domestic fine arts. The story of the most significant artistic phenomenon in the painting of the time of Peter the Great is illustrated by color reproductions of works by Russian artists and foreign masters who worked in Russia. The book is intended for a wide readership.