India in the paintings of Russian artists
Ancient temples, luxurious palaces, bustling markets and much more – see how they saw it.
Vasily Vereshchagin. ‘Taj Mahal Mausoleum in Agra’, 1874
Vasily Vereshchagin. ‘Three Major deities in the Chingacheling buddhist monastery in Sikkim’, 1875
Vasily Vereshchagin. ‘Evening on the lake. One of the Marble pavilions on the embankment in Rajnagar (Principality of Udaipur)’, 1874
Vasily Vereshchagin. ‘Moti Masjid (Pearl Mosque) in Agra’, 1876
Vasily Vatagin. ‘Buffalo and heron’, 1920
Nicholas Roerich. ‘Santana’, 1937
Nicholas Roerich. ‘Lights on the Ganges (Flame of Happiness)’, 1947
Vasily Vatagin. ‘Working elephants’, 1953
Nicholas Roerich. ‘Brahmaputra’, 1945
Svyatoslav Roerich. ‘The Message’, 1953
Semyon Chuikov. ‘On the Bombay embankment in the evening’, 1954
Svyatoslav Roerich. ‘Return home’, 1954
Dmitry Nalbandian. ‘Jaipur. India’, 1974
Pavel Grechishkin. ‘Little Delhi Bazaar’, 1978
Pavel Grechishkin. ‘Under an old tree. Delhi’, 1980