Lancere Evgeny

(1848 - 1887), lepivshy very small figures and groups. Place of the French family who settled in Russia, education was at St. Petersburg University, Faculty of Law. Starting on the school bench to engage in molding figurines of horses and people quickly been improved by careful study of nature. Two-time trip to Paris provided an opportunity to see Lancere exemplary works of fine sculpture. Material for art brought Lancere, mostly his own observations over the types and life of Cossacks, Kirgiz, Bashkir, Caucasians, with their biting and endurance horses. He took the theme also of Russia's past, from the war with Turkey, after a trip to Algeria - the life of the western. Excellent transfer of the typical features of people and characteristics of different breeds of horses, . naturalness and liveliness of motion reproduction, . graceful delicate moldings distinguish as separate pieces of work Lancere, . and its complex groups, such, . "Troika" (1869), "The administration of the bazaar" (1870), "Royal falconer XVII century" (1872), "Catching the steppe horse" (1878), "Kabardinian herd of horses" (1878); Zaporozhets after the battle "( 1878); "Kirghiz cannot on holiday" (1882), "The Cossacks-foragers" (1879) and t,
. d. In the museum of Alexander III - "Svyatoslav".