Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky

Orenburgsky was one of the fourteen students who decided in 1863 to leave the Imperial Academy of Arts as part of the Revolt of the Fourteen and to form an independent artistic society, the Petersburg Cooperative of Artists (Artel), which preceded the Association of Travelling Art Exhibits, the basis of the peredvizhniki circle.

Orenburgsky is known for the military themes that predominated his work after he participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78,one of his notable works of that era,"[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Skobelev_%28Dimitriev-Orenburgsky%29.jpg General Mikhail Skobelev on the Horse]" was imprinted on [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stamp_of_Russia_2013_No_1686_Russo-Turkish_War_1877-78.jpg a stamp issued to mark the 135th anniversary of the termination of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878], as a joint issue of Russia and Bulgaria and for paintings depicting Russian village life (the lives of simple people, the peasants, in specific).

In the project documenting The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893,{{Cite web |url=http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/ |title=World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 |access-date=2017-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110033144/http://columbus.gl.iit.edu/ |archive-date=2012-11-10 |url-status=dead }} in which some of his Russian village life paintings were exhibited, it is so commented of Dmitriev-Orenburgsky's work: "A noticeable feature is the air of sadness depicted in scenes of Russian life, even in those which portray its more cheerful phases. Thus in "Sunday in a Village", by Dmitrieff-Orenbursky, where peasants are trying to make merry, we can see that they are only trying, and with indifferent success",{{Cite web|url=http://columbus.iit.edu/bookfair/1500/00124058.jpg|title=THE BOOK OF THE FAIR p.758|accessdate=9 May 2024}} and it is commented furthermore: "To stand before this canvas is to have very much the sensation of being set down in a Russian village on a Sunday afternoon".[https://web.archive.org/web/20170824005648/http://columbus.iit.edu/artarch/1500/00184027.jpg ART & ARCHITECTURE p.70]. Archived from [http://columbus.iit.edu/artarch/1500/00184027.jpg the original] on 2017-08-24. Retrieved 2022-12-22.

Dmitriev-Orenburgsky's work is collected and exhibited, inter alia, in the Hermitage Museum,[https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/search-results#search=Orenburgskij Orenburgskij] hermitagemuseum.org The Russian Museum,{{Cite web|url=https://en.rusmuseum.ru/benois-wing/exhibitions/the-outstanding-collectors-of-folk-art-from-the-series-not-for-personal-gain-collection-and-collecto/?sphrase_id=55287|title=EMINENT FOLK ART COLLECTORS. From the "Not for personal gain:" series. "Collections and Collectors from the Russian Museum" - The Benois Wing - Русский музей|website=en.rusmuseum.ru|accessdate=9 May 2024}} the Military Historical Museum and The Museum of Russian Art.In 2009 "[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dmitriev_007.jpg Sunday in a Village]" was exhibited (on loan from a private collection) at The Museum of Russian Art. http://tmora.org/2009/02/02/russkiy-salon-select-favorites-and-newly-revealed-works/

Dmitriev 002.jpg|Drowned in a Village (1868, in the State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg)

Dmitriev 004.jpg|Siege of Plevna: Artillery Battle (1880, in the Artillery Museum, Saint Petersburg)

File:General Skobelev (Dimitriev-Orenburgsky).jpg|General M. D. Skobelev on his horse in the Russo-Turkish war 1877/78 (1883, in the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum)

Pereprava cherez Dunaj.jpg|Crossing of the Russian army across the Danube (1883, in the Artillery Museum, Saint Petersburg)

Nikopol dmitriev.jpg|Delivery of the fortress Nikopol (1883, in the Artillery Museum, Saint Petersburg)

Dmitriev_007.jpg|Sunday in a Village (1884)

Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky The Fire in the village.jpg|Fire in a Village (1885, in the State Russian Museum)

Zahvat grivickogo reduta.jpg|Siege of Plevna: Capture Redoubt (1885, in the Artillery Museum, Saint Petersburg)

Dmitriev 003.jpg|The last battle at Plevna November 28, 1877 (1889, in the Artillery Museum, Saint Petersburg)

Dmitriev-Orenburgsky-Osman-pasha.jpg|Siege of Plevna: Presentation of the captive Osman Pasha to Alexander II (1898, in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)

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• [https://01varvara.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/meet-the-artist-nikolai-dmitriev-orenburgsky/ Meet the Artist: Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky], for more detailed biography
• [http://www.artnet.com/artists/nikolai-dmitrievich-dmitriev-orenburgsky/past-auction-results Nikolai Dmitrievich Dmitriev-Orenburgsky] at Artnet website.

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