Harvest in Ukraine

Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko was a Ukrainian realist painter who lived and worked in the Russian Empire.

Pymonenko was the outstanding Ukrainian genre painter, whose name is linked to the rise of Ukrainian fine art of the second half of the 19th century, although he was often billed simply as a Russian painter because he was painting in Kyiv within the Russian Empire then. He was associated with the Odesa-based Society of South Russian Artists in southern Ukraine and, with the Peredvizhniki ("Itinerants"), a Saint Petersburg-based society circulating exhibitions throughout the empire. He is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of farmers, country folk, and working-class people. He contributed significantly to the creation of a national realistic art painting, creating a number of the leading paintings of daily life in a Ukrainian village. 

We really hope Ukraine will look like a paradise again, like in this painting.