THE IMAGE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY 1870S IN PAINTINGS N. YAROSHENKO

Art of the 1870s was characterized by a combination of critical realism with the search for positive images of the social forces that have shaped the path of Russia's development. ON. Yaroshenko in his work one of the first to take to the creation of the image of revolutionary populist 1870s. This article describes the first painting by populist themes, as well as determine their effect on the development of the theme Yaroshenko in the 1880s, in the years Tsarist reaction that followed the assassination of Alexander II, March 1, 1881.