The Mikhailovsky Palace

One of the features of the works of the artists of the late nineteenth century was attention to national manifestations in history, life and nature. Artists of those years, like Alexei Savrasov (1830–1897), closely studied local landscapes, revealing previously unnoticed poetry.

Savrasov is considered to be one of the creators of the lyrical landscape. It was he who managed to show in his paintings connection between nature and human’s spiritual life. In the 1870s the artist’s talent flowered to the highest degree. To those times most of his works displayed in the Russian Museum relate. The best landscapes painted in that period are Thaw. Yaroslavl (1874), Spring. View of the Moscow Kremlin (1873), The Flood of the Volga near Yaroslavl (1871). Savrasov influenced a great deal on the Russian landscape painters of the late 19^th century – early 20^th century. After the master’s death Isaak Levitan told that “Savrasov had created the Russian landscape”.