The light of another world. Images of Grigory Krug, icon painter of Russian emigration

Abstract

The work analyzes the work of Grigory Krug, an iconographer of Russian emigration. Grigory Krug, who was born in St. Petersburg, in a Swedish family, ended up in Estonia after the revolution, and then emigrated to France. Here he studied with the leading masters of the Silver Age and the avant-garde, entered the sphere of the artistic elite of Paris, began a successful exhibition activity. But soon he took up icon painting, became a monk and became one of the most famous Russian icon painters of the Paris school, whom the press called the new Andrei Rublev. Today, the work of Grigory Krug is becoming particularly relevant.