Andrey Shishkin (Russian, 1960) After horse-riding 2008

Russian self-taught realist painter Andrey Shishkin was born in 1960 in Moscow, where he lives and works now. The artist didn’t get any art education, and he has been painting since the age of 15. Andrey has never had a personal or a group exhibition, though the level of this self-taught painter evidently shows his bright talent, worth appreciating

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Andrey Shishkin (Russian, 1960) Lady with a Fan 2013

Andrey Shishkin (Russian, 1960) Do you remember...?

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Andrey Shishkin Mistress of Copper Mountain (By Vasnetsov idea)

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Alive - in Slavic mythology - the goddess of life, spring, fertility, birth of corn-grain. Goddess of Spring and life in all its manifestations; She - the Goddess of Life-giving forces of nature, bubbling spring of water, the first green shoots; patroness of young girls and young women

Surits - in Slavic mythology - a sun goddess of joy, fun and light (surya drink /honey Pitney)

In Slavic mythology, the Zorja (Zara-Zaranica) are the two guardian goddesses, known as the Auroras. They guard and watch over the winged doomsday hound, Simargl, who is chained to the star Polaris in the constellation Ursa Minor, the "little bear". If the chain ever breaks, the hound will devour the constellation and the universe will end. The Zorja represent the Morning Star and the Evening Star

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Kupala (the god of fertility and sexuality) Kupala is a traditional goddess in Slavic mythology. In his book Deutsche Mythologie (1835), Jacob Grimm noted that Russians used the word kupala to describe the bonfires they lit at the summer solstice, and recorded that some people explained the word as the name Kupulo, a harvest god

Andrey Shishkin Cherry

Iriy ( Irij) is a mythical place in Slavic mythology where birds fly for the winter and souls go after death, sometimes identified with paradise. Snakes have their own iriy where they go for the winter which is located underground

Andrey Shishkin (Russian, 1960) Lullaby 55x70 2013

Andrey ShishkinA walk in the garden

Andrey Shishkin Amazon 2004

Andrey ShishkinBefore leaving

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Motherhood Warm light

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Andrey Shishkin (Russian, 1960)

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Andrey Shishkin (Russian, 1960) The brave lady's man. Copy

Andrey Shishkin (Russian, 1960) Near the window 2007

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Ekaterina Yastrebova (Russian, 1965)

Ekaterina Yastrebova (Russian, 1965) She came

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Vladimir Becić, Croatia Girl with flowers, 1933

Vjekoslav Karas (1821-1858) CroatiaRoman Lady with Lute

Elena Shlegel (Belarus, 1965)

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Gullu Mustafayeva Azerbaijan (1921-1993)

Alex Fishgoyt (Ukraine) Spirit of Freedom

Alex Fishgoyt (Ukraine) Red chair

Private whisper

Alex Fishgoyt (Ukraine) Europe

Alex Fishgoyt (Ukraine) Temptation of Time

Alex Fishgoyt (Ukraine) Tick Tack

Grigory Gagarin (1810–1893) Portrait of Cossacks Women

Vladimir Kush (born in Moscow, 1965)

Fashionable bridge

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