Spain in the paintings of Russian artists

Anna Popova

Sep 08 2026

Tretyakov gallery

Their works are filled with passion – because that's exactly how the painters saw this Iberian country.

Yevgraf Sorokin. ‘Spanish Beggar Girl’, 1852

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Yevgraf Sorokin. ‘Spanish Gypsies’, 1853

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Ivan Aivazovsky. ‘Malaga’, 1854

Feodosia art gallery named after I.K. Aivazovsky

Ilya Repin. ‘Don Juan and Donna Anna’, 1895–1896

All-Russian A.S. Pushkin museum

Konstantin Korovin. ‘Spanish tavern’, 1902

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Alexander Golovin. ‘Spanish Woman in Red’, 1906–1907

Russian museum

Alexander Golovin. ‘Lillas Pastya’, 1908

Russian museum

Alexander Golovin. ‘Spanish Woman with a Cigarette’, 1907–1908

Astrakhan art gallery named after P.M. Dogadin

Pyotr Konchalovsky. ‘Matador’, 1910

Russian museum

Vasily Surikov. ‘Grenada’, 1910

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Pyotr Konchalovsky. ‘Palms. Caldetas’, 1910

Private collection

Konstantin Gorbatov. ‘Seville. Spain’, 1913

New Jerusalem museum

Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva. ‘Segovia’, 1915

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Pavel Tchelischev. ‘Spanish Guitarist’, 1921-1922

St. Petersburg museum of theatre and musical arts

Kliment Redko. ‘Bullfight in Spain’, 1932

Russian museum

Natalia Goncharova. ‘Spring. White Spanish Women’, 1932

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Samuel Adlivankin. ‘No Pasaran’, 1937

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