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Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (1830-1897), one of Russia’s most remarkable landscape painters, who proceeded from romantic traditions in his never ending searchings, was first to produce what one could term the lyrical landscape. However, since he often anticipated future developments in both concept and realisation, his creative career was no bed of roses, for which reason his oeuvre confronts the art student and historian with perplexing problems. Many of his singular salient features derived from his artistic talent, his heightened sentivenses. Yet, he shows us a vital aspect of nature, namely its bond with our intellectual senses, that as such was unquestionable influenced by the overall philosophies of the time.

In 1918 the special Commission on disclosing monuments of old Russian painting has been organized in the All-Russian restoration commission. Already in the first years the most significant Russian icons were taken on the account and cleared away from the latest painting. The first of the icons to be opened was the Vladimir Mother of God