The subject of peasantry in the works of the artist Elena Andreevna Kiseleva

The article studies vitally important for the artists of the end of the 19th — beginning of the 20th century subjects of peasant life. It focuses primarily on the paintings by Elena Andreevna Kiseleva (1878–1974) whose works due to her forced early emigration are relatively unknown to the public, fine art experts and artists. E. A. Kiseleva turned to the subject of peasantry in the Academy of Arts working in I. E. Repin's studio in the process of creating her graduation work “The Trinity Day” (1906–1907) for which she got the first prize — the right to take a trip abroad on a scholarship thus becoming the first of woman artists in the history of the Academy who had achieved such success. Elena Andreevna Kiseleva can have a rightful place in the line of her famous contemporaries. The high level of her works, superb performance of professional skill match the best paintings by the artists of the epoch.