Winter landscape in the artistic heritage of P.M. Kosharov as a local display of Siberian nature of the XIX century

The Scientific Library of Tomsk State University stores the collection of paintings and litographic works of Tomsk artist Pavel Mikhailovich Kosharov (1824-1902), who lived and worked in Tomsk since 1854. This collection contains seven graphical winter landscapes that were painted by the artist in 1880-1890-ies. These works are discussed in the article. The composite decisions are revealed for four Baraba steppe landscapes, which had the Siberian highway as the main theme. In those landscapes Kosharov conveys the immensity of Siberian vastness, winter state of the nature in this area. The artist introduces small genre motifs into the landscape. These motifs are associated with the presence of people. Such approach allows showing the severity of Siberian winter because it is through people the extreme conditions are perceived. It is noted that the artist was able to give these landscapes a social significance inherent to Peredvizhnik painters of the second half of the XIX century. Of the many graphical urban landscapes created by P. Kosharov in 1880-1890-ies., only three of them give us the impression of how Tomsk streets looked like in winter time. Several litographic drawings of the artist, which were prepared and published by him in 1889-1891 in the series "Artistic and ethnographic pictures of Siberia", are also considered. In composition these drawings repeated two graphical landscapes related to the Baraba steppe. Each drawing of this series P. Kosharov accompanied by detailed explanatory author's texts which are of a scientific value for historians and ethnographers of Siberia.

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