The Great Artists series consists of 100 albums of world painting. On the pages of books - biographies of artists, the main milestones of creativity, their role in world culture. Each album has about 50 illustrations. The album is dedicated to the work of Kramskoy. Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy (1837-1887) occupies one of the leading places in the history of Russian art culture in the second half of the 19th century. The organizer of the St. Petersburg artel, one of the founders of the association of Wanderers, a subtle art critic, passionately interested in the fate of Russian art, he was the ideologist of a whole generation of realist artists.