Duo Limei,
Gugong Museum, Beijing, China, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Russian Professional Artists of the 19th Century in China
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-3-17
This article examines the activities and achievements of the first Russian professional artist of the 19th century. Anton Mikhailovich Legashev in China through a portrait of a Chinese official painted by him, stored at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. On the one hand, A.M. Legashev tried to realize breakthroughs in self-realization and artistic creativity through the paintings he created during his stay in China, at the same time he served the tsarist government and carried out a political mission to explore China. A.M. Legashev’s surviving paintings played an important role in visualizing the construction of cultural exchanges between China and Russia.
Publishing: 28/06/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 16/12/2022
How to cite: Duo Limei. Russian Professional Artists of the 19th Century in China // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 3 (29), pp. 199–207. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-3-17.pdf]
The article was written as part of the Gugun Museum project “Research on Russian Cultural Relics of the Gugun Museum”.
Links: Issue 3 2023
Keywords: Russian artist; spiritual mission in Beijing; collection of the Canadian Museum; cultural exchanges between China and Russia