Stanislav Zhukovsky (1873-1944) was an outstanding artist, a painter, a lyrical landscape painter, and an Itinerant. By the beginning of the 20th century, he became one of the most famous impressionist landscape painters in Russia. He traveled a lot through Central Russia, looking into ancient "nests of gentlefolk".
He is the author of lyrical landscapes: Forest. Ferns. Sunset (1895), Neman (1895), The Sunset. The Upper Volga (1897), Spring Water (1898), Clear Autumn. Indian summer (1899), The Autumn in the Manor (1906), Under the Spring Sun (The Lodge Gate to Ostrovki) (1915), etc. Oftentimes, he created paintings with interiors of gentry estates.
The postage stamp provides painting The Abandoned Terrace (1911) by Stanislav Zhukovsky; the margins of the block feature a portrait of the artist set against the studio with his paintings.
The composition of the souvenir pack in cover “150th Birth Anniversary of S. Zhukovsky” is included:
- postal block №3061 “Joint issue of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Russian Academy of Arts series. 150th Birth Anniversary of S. Zhukovsky (1873–1944), painter”;
- FDC with cancellation in Moscow “Joint issue of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Russian Academy of Arts series. 150th Birth Anniversary of S. Zhukovsky (1873–1944), painter”;
- vignette.
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