10 Facts About Peredvizhniki

Peredvizhniki, often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870.

Peredvizhniki were influenced by the public views of the literary critics Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolai Chernyshevsky, both of whom espoused liberal ideas.

Peredvizhniki viewed press censorship, serfdom, and capital punishment as Western influences.

In 1863, almost immediately after the emancipation of serfs, Chernyshevsky's goals were realized with the help of Peredvizhniki, who took the pervasive Slavophile-populist idea that Russia had a distinguishable, modest, inner beauty of its own and worked out how to display it on canvas.

Peredvizhniki portrayed the many-sided aspects of social life, often critical of inequities and injustices.

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Peredvizhniki condemned the Russian aristocratic orders and autocratic government in their humanistic art.

Peredvizhniki painted mainly landscapes; some, like Polenov, used plein air technique.

Peredvizhniki painted landscapes to explore the beauty of their own country and encourage ordinary people to love and preserve it.

Peredvizhniki gave a national character to landscapes, so people of other nations could recognize Russian landscape.

The landscapes of Peredvizhniki are the symbolic embodiments of Russian nationality.