Grigory and Nikanor Chernetsov are brothers, landscapes and perspectives painters. The Chernetsov brothers are little known to the public. The oeuvre, meanwhile, is a unique phenomenon in the history of the Russian art school. They came form the provinces and by hard work and talent gained popularity in the capital art circuses and became academics of painting. The heritage they left is enormous. The Chernetsovs are famous for their "artistic travels": in 1838 the artists voyaged down the Volga-river on a specially designed studio-boat, and painted the panorama of both banks of the great Russian river Volga. From the voyage the artists brought a large number of studies and sketches, which later served as a plot for numerous pictures. Basing on the sketches, the Chernetsovs created a large panorama-picture of the Volga river, spreading from both sides of the spectators, standing in the middle. This picture became a first so to say pictorial video-film in Russia.
