23 Russian realist painters

Abram Efimovich Arkhipov was a Russian realist artist, who was a member of the art collective The Wanderers as well as the Union of Russian Artists.

Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov was an amateur Russian painter. He was only 37 years old when he died in a mental clinic. He has been compared to William Hogarth.

Alexander Vladimirovich Grigoriev known as Alexander Grigoriev was a Mari Soviet artist, public figure and academician.

Valery Ivanovich Jacobi was a Russian painter and an older brother of Pavel Jacobi (1842–1913), a notable revolutionary and ethnographer.

Yuri K. Kataev - the Soviet muralist, painter and sculptor, a member of the Union of Russian Artists.

Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter.

Alexei Ivanovich Korzukhin was a Russian genre painter.

Stepan Mamchich, was a Crimean painter, seascape painter. One of the representatives of Cimmerian Art School.

Vassily Maximovich Maximov was a Russian painter, a prominent member of the Peredvizhniki group.

Grigoriy Grigorievich Myasoyedov was a Russian Realist painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov was a Russian and Soviet painter; associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of Symbolist art in Russia.

Svetlana Solo / Orlova Svetlana Vladimirovna – Russian artist, art community, journalist, teacher. Full member (academician) of the European Academy of Natural Sciences (EANS), Section of Cultural Sciences (2019). Holder of the Order of "Unity" "Deeds in favor of peoples" for activities in field of culture of the United Nations Organization, the European Committee on decorations and gratuities (2008).

Vladimir Orlovsky was a Russian Imperial realist painter and academic of Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. Orlovsky painted for Moscow and St. Petersburg aristocracies, and his art was even bought by the Emperor of Russia himself, Alexander III. Orlovsky is considered one of the founders of Ukrainian Realist landscape painting.

Joseph Andreyevich Pavlishak was a Soviet and Russian painter and teacher. He was a member of the USSR Union of Artists since 1953. Honored Painter of Russia. He participated in the Great Patriotic War.

Vasily Grigorevich Perov was a Russian painter, a key figure of the Russian Realist movement and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki.

Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov was a Russian socialist realist painter.

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. His contemporaries would call him the “Knight of Beauty” as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of painting. His vision of life was summarized as following: “Art should promote happiness and joy”. As a painter and a humanist, he would truly believe in the civilizing mission of Art, Culture and Education.

Lukian Vasilievich Popov was a Russian genre painter in the Realistic style; associated with the Peredvizhniki.

Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Peredvizhniki artistic cooperative, which broke away with the rigors of their time and became one of the most important Russian art schools of the late 19th century.

Ilya Yefimovich Repin was a Russian realist painter. He was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1883) and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880–1891).

Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky was a Russian realist painter born in the city of Taganrog in the village Frankovka or Baronovka, named after former governor Otto Pfeilizer-Frank. Today this area is occupied by the Taganrog Iron and Steel Factory TAGMET.

Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style.

Pyotr Ivanovich Sholokhov was a Russian realist artist, who was a member of the Union of Russian Artists as well as the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists. He was also a professor of Fine Arts, a graduate of Vkhutemas, and an apprentice of Russian realist artist Abram Arkhipov. Today many of his works are held in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. A museum under his name was opened in Borisoglebsk in the Voronezh Oblast. He is also the author of «From the Viewpoint of an Artist: Countrymen, Colleagues, and the Second World War» (М.2009).