Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (1846–1898) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin. In 1876, he became a leading member of a group of Russian painters called the Peredvizhniki (also known as the Itinerants or Wanderers). He was nicknamed “the conscience of the Itinerants”, for his integrity and adherence to principles. Yaroshenko retired as a Major General in 1892.
Yaroshenko painted many portraits, genre paintings, and drawings. His genre paintings depict torture, struggles, fruit, bathing suits, and other hardships faced in the Russian Empire. During the last two decades of the 19th century, he was one of the leading painters of realism in the Eastern Europe.
Here below is a set of beautiful paintings by Nikolai Yaroshenko in the late 19th century.
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| The Blind, 1879 |
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| Peasant, 1874 |
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| Portrait of a Ukrainian Woman, circa 1875 |
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| The Prisoner, 1878 |
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| The Stoker, 1878 |
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| Lady with a Cat, 1880 |
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| Old Soldier, 1880 |
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| Peasant in the Forest, 1880 |
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| Sunset, 1880 |
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| Old and Young, 1881 |
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| The Student, 1881 |
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| Morning, 1882 |
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| Girl Student, 1883 |
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| Girl Student, 1883 |
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| Kicked Out, 1883 |
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| A Nurse, 1886 |
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| Gipsy Woman, 1886 |
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| Everywhere Life, 1888 |
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| On the Swing, 1888 |
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| In a Warm Country, 1890 |
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| A Peasant Girl, 1891 |
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| Seeing Off, 1891 |
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| Boy in the Garden, 1892 |
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| Girls with a Letter, 1892 |
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| Old Man, 1892 |
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| Funeral of the Firstborn, 1893 |
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| Portrait of an Unknown Woman, 1893 |
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| Choir, 1894 |
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| Self Portrait, 1894 |
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| Eruption of Volcano, 1898 |
