Konstantin Korovin, Impressionism, and Camouflage on the Eastern Front of the Great War

Konstantin Korovin’s participation in the development of camouflage for the Russian front remains one of the lesser-known episodes in his biography. Unlike the Western front, where military camouflage units had already been established by mid-1915, the Russian army struggled to develop this new type of camouflage. Inventors Alexei and Nikolai Suchkov involved Konstantin Korovin in experiments with tonal colouring (colour camouflage), and he significantly changed the Suchkov’s camouflage method itself. The paper examines the differences in the understanding of camouflage on the Western and Eastern (Russian) fronts of the First World War. The author shows the influence of Korovin’s impressionistic method on experiments with camouflage.