A few of the most famous Russian Christian artists:

19th C: Repin Ivanov Polenov Kramskoy Nesterov Semiradsky

Contemporary: Ryzhenko Glazunov Morgun Afonina

Our top 10 favorites: A purely subjective list of paintings and artists we love.

To see all of the over 100 paintings in this series, click here.

About this series: As we learned about Russia's traditional faith, Russian Orthodox Christianity, we discovered an enormous, mostly forgotten treasure of striking Christian paintings, mostly unknown in the West, starting from approximately the early 1800s, and continuing to this day.

So far we have cataloged over 150 images, and are discovering more all the time. We will gradually be getting them all online. If you know of a painter or sculptor which we can add to the series, please let us know in the form below. You can see the entire list of what we already have online here.

From Wikipedia:

'Eternal Russia' ('One Hundred Ages') - a painting by I. S. Glazunov. Finished by the author in Moscow in 1988. Originally called the 'One Hundred Ages', it was later renamed 'Eternal Russia'. Eternal Russia is an oil painting on canvas, measuring 118″ × 236″

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A stage canvas in the artist’s works, both in concept and composition, and in terms of the number of state and political figures represented on it, military leaders, science and culture figures of Russia of different eras

I. Glazunov dedicated this picture to the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus, although the time frames of the events depicted by him were not limited to ten centuries, but led back thousands of years to the roots of the origin of Russian civilization. The artist presented the history of eternal Russia in the form of an endless national procession, religious procession, originating from Sophia of Constantinople and Kiev, the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, the ancient walls of the Moscow Kremlin, at the beginning of which the images of Orthodox saints, statesmen and public figures, military leaders, writers, artists, scientists, composers who created, elevated and defended Russia.

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Ilya Glazunov (10 June 1930 – 9 July 2017) was a Russian artist from Saint Petersburg. He was the founder of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow (Russian: Российская академия живописи, ваяния и зодчества) where he also served as a rector up until his death. He held the title of People's Artist of Russia. Ilya Glazunov's paintings have mostly historic or religious themes. Famous works include Russia the Eternal, The 20th Century Mystery, The Ruining of the Temple on Easter Night, and illustrations to the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

About the Great Russian Christian Art series:

Russia has a wonderfully rich heritage of Christian and Bible-themed painting which reached its zenith in the second half of the 19th century, as part of the realist school. Many of the canvases are enormous, filling an entire wall of a large public hall. Some of them took decades to complete. They are a striking and beautiful testimony to how deeply ingrained Christianity is in Russian history, culture, philosophy, thought, indeed, in her very soul. They are a delight to behold.

As Russia emerges as a leader in the return to traditionalism, this style of painting is again in vogue, and there are also several contemporary Christian painters creating extraordinary canvases. Indeed, Moscow has an excellent art academy dedicated to this style, a topic we covered in the profile of Ilya Glazunov, a leading, recently deceased painter in this genre. See: A Conservative Russian Lion With Real Mass Influence – The Painter Ilya Glazunov

Many of these paintings and artists are hardly known in the West, dismissed by the secular, atheist, globalist modern 'art' vogue. We are delighted to bring you this series, which consists of several dozens of works. You can see all of the works in this series by clicking here.

We think you’ll enjoy them as much as we do.