In Staraya Russa for the 205th anniversary of Dostoevsky opened an exhibition of portraits of the classic

On the day of the 205th anniversary of the writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, the exhibition “Iconography of Dostoevsky” opened in the house-museum in Staraya Russa. This was reported by the press service of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve.

The exposition shows how the writer was for his contemporaries and how his image changed in the art of the XX-XXI centuries.

“For some, he is a deep thinker who has sought to understand the secrets of the human soul; for others, a man tired of hard work; for others, a suffering man who has gone through hard labor and preserved his faith. In portraits, artists of different generations sought to capture those traits of the writer’s personality that were especially close and understandable to him, the cultural institution said in a statement.

The first portrait of the writer was created by Konstantin Trutovsky in 1847. As for photography, there are only 19 lifetime photographs taken by 12 authors. Along with the famous portrait of Vasily Perov in 1872, these images became the basis for many subsequent artistic interpretations.

The exposition includes lifetime photographs, graphic and sculptural portraits of masters of different eras. The exhibition allows us to trace how the perception of Dostoevsky’s personality and creativity changed over the course of a century and a half.