The statue arrived at the Louvre sealed in several boxes - the largest contained Venus of Milos herself, and the others smaller ones contained her hands, pedestal and fragments. The Louvre management wanted to have in the museum an unqualified masterpiece created by the famous ancient Greek sculptor.

In England at that time, Victorian morality was no less severe than Soviet morality in the 1930s. There was even more naturalism in his paintings - the peasants did not resemble the ancient gods at all.

Miserable goods - rows of canned "Breakfast of a Tourist" and apple juice. Just depicting the surrounding reality as it really was.

The situation with Venus is different - although she is relaxed, she is not exhausted. Botticelli simply replaced the gods with satyrs and added more comedy to the situation. But only history has put everything in its place

He made up for the lack of academic education by talking and arguing, Repin, Kramskoi and Polenov explained to him the basics of painting. His landscapes are in good standing, some of them were acquired by Tretyakov himself.

This is a competently created image, not documentary evidence, and for this he was later accused of wanting to indulge the authorities and called "Stalin's court painter". But Gerasimov had no other choice.