01 Work, The Art of War, Klaudii Vasilievich Lebedev's The Fall of Novgorod, with footnotes

Klaudii Vasilievich Lebedev, (Russian, 1852 - 1916)

The Fall of Novgorod, c. 1891

Oil on canvas

64 3/8 x 101 3/4 in.

Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin

The Fall of Novgorod depicts the capture of the City of Novgorod by Ivan III in 1478. Ivan had the city bell—a symbol of self-governance by the citizens—taken down and transported to Moscow. In the painting Marfa Boretskaya, the mayor's widow and leader of the resistance, stands in silent outrage as Ivan's troops remove the bell and shackle her partisans. Klaudii Lebedev paints the wintry, gray, snow-covered day of the victory of the Muscovites and lavishes attention on the details of dress in the spirit of historical accuracy.

Klavdy Vasilyevich Lebedev (1852 – 1916) was a Russian painter. He was a member of the Peredvizhniki movement.

Lebedev came from a peasant family, studied at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry and the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Vasily Perov and Evgraf Sorokin. From 1890 he taught there.

In 1881 he was awarded a large silver medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the title of a class artist. Member of The Wanderers group (1891).

The title of academician of painting of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1897). The title of full member of the Academy of Arts (1906).

Became full-time professor of the Academy of Arts (1894–1898). More on Klavdy Vasilyevich Lebedev

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