В. И. Зарубин и его картина «Пейзаж с рекой и рыбаками» (1917) в собрании Государственного художественного музея Алтайского края

The paper aims to reconstruct the biography and to analyze the creative work of V. I. Zarubin, a little-known artist of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, a graduate of the Russian Academy of Arts (workshop of A. I. Kuindzhi – a brilliant painter, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts). The researchers introduce into scientific circulation poorly investigated archival materials, including the unpublished ones, for the first time provide a comprehensive analysis of V. I. Zarubin’s large-scale painting “Landscape with River and Fishermen”, and herein lies scientific originality of the study. The article presents a survey of publications dedicated to V. I. Zarubin, provides a brief description of his works stored in regional museum collections. The research findings are as follows: the authors introduce into scientific circulation previously unpublished biographical materials, describe the basic stages of V. I. Zarubin’s creative work (in particular, Petersburg period when he studied at the Russian Academy of Arts), identify the influence of A. I. Kuindzhi’s school on his formation as a painter, propose an approach to interpreting his most significant painting.