| | Horizons - Self Gallery 1900-1920 - Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | This painting by Vasnetsov belongs to the lyrical landscape tradition. |
 | | The painter depicts the scenery of Central Russia, probably the town where he was born, which he described as his “Dear Ryabovo.” At the time, Vyatka was a lost province where, for a long time, political prisoners spent their years in exile. |
 | | This unpretentious landscape enabled Vasnetsov to depict the special and poetic beauty of northern nature, as well as the simplicity and lack of artifice in a small isolated Russian village, one the artist knew from his childhood. |
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