Kiev National Picture Gallery

The Kiev National Picture Gallery is a museum in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The information available says nothing about its history or building, so this profile focuses on the character of its holdings as they appear in the works listed on the website. There are 21 of them, and Russian painting dominates. Ivan Shishkin is the most represented artist, with seven paintings, among them In the Wild North…, Wind-Fallen Trees, Winter in the forest (Frost), Stream in the Forest (On the Hillside), Forest Reserve. Pine Grove and View on the island of Valaam. Vasily Polenov follows with seven works as well, including Beirut, and Mikhail Vrubel has three: The Girl Against the Background of Persian Carpet, Flowers in Blue Vase and Angel with Censer and Candle. The selection is completed by Meditator by Ivan Kramskoi, the Portrait of poet, prose writer, translator and dramatist Sergei Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky with his wife by Ilya Repin, and a painting by Alexei Savrasov. Several Polenov and Savrasov pictures appear without a registered title, so their identification remains pending. The list also names Fyodor Vasilyev among the painters represented, though no specific work is linked to him. Overall, the museum offers a representative view of Russian landscape and portrait painting, with landscape especially prominent, the genre in which Shishkin and Polenov account for much of the selection.