November 29, 1871 in St. Petersburg, opened the first exhibition of the Wanderers
 

November 29, 1871
In St. Petersburg, opened the first exhibition of the Wanderers


In St. Petersburg, in the halls of the Academy of Arts (17) November 29, 1871, opened the first exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Wanderers), which caused a rapid response in the community. The main reason was that it was out in the light of Russia's first free community of creative artists Democrats. Advanced press hailed educational, ideological and democratic nature of their art.

This event was preceded by a heated debate among the founders of the Association of the place of opening the first exhibition - St. Petersburg or Moscow? The final decision of the dispute was taken at the first general meeting of members of the Association in December 1870 in St. Petersburg. Vote decided that it was St. Petersburg. At the same meeting was elected the first board of the Association. It consists of - Nikolai Ge, Gregory Myasoedov, Mikhail Klodt, Vasily Perov, Ivan Kramskoy, as a candidate - Hilary Pryanishnikov.

Participants of the first traveling exhibition of steel B. Amman, S. Ammosov, A. Bogolyubov, N. Ge, K. Kuhn, L. Kamenev, F. Kamensky (sculptor), M. Klodt, D. Myasoedov, Perov, I. Pryanishnikov, Ivan Shishkin, etc. The first traveling exhibition was quite a small in composition.

Petersburg commentators, noting this fact, paying attention to the fact that the show "the true picture is exhibited reserves the earlier exhibitions, most recently, apparently, had begun to decline."

The exhibition, consisting of 47 works, in sharp contrast to the annual academic exhibitions, which for many years been considered as a demonstration of the true achievements of the Russian school of painting.

In spite of the limited number of exhibition contains significant works in all genres of painting: portrait, landscape, genre. The work of the exhibition ended in January 1872 and went to conquer Moscow, where he also received a wide response. Then she moved across Russia.

Now in the Stockholm National Museum is quite a big show "Peredvizhniki."
Pictures from the Russian Museum and Tretyakov Gallery.
A lot of people, at least in the day when we were.