Konstantin Makovsky was an influential 19th-century painter associated with the ‘Peredvizhniki’ (Wanderers), an independent group of Russian realists. His best-known works, such as The Russian Bride's Attire, depict a detailed, romanticized view of historical Russia, especially the lives of the aristocracy (or boyars). This book explores his career and the new audience he found in Europe and the United States, where there was a craze for boyar and medieval Russian culture.