The role of patronage in popularizing the work of Stanislav Zhukovsky

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of patronage as a socio-cultural phenomenon, the forms of its manifestation in Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, as well as the influence on the formation of the creative fate of a particular person - the Polish artist Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky (1873-1944), who, by the will of historical destinies, in the period under review lived on the territory of the Russian Empire in Moscow. The role of individual patrons of art in supporting the artist through the acquisition of his paintings is analyzed. The fate of individual works of the artist, which have survived to this day thanks to the private collections of Russian patrons of art, has been investigated.