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Alexei Savrasov

1830–1897 · Russian Empire · Realism

Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov (24 May 1830 – 8 October 1897) was a Russian landscape painter and creator of the lyrical landscape style. The most famous and a celebrated work is The Rooks Have Returned. Wikipedia

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Modest, lyrical Russian landscapes: early spring, melting snow, birches and rooks — quiet poetry of the plain.

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Works

• “The Rooks Have Returned”, 1871 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Elk Island in Sokolniki”, 1869 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “View in the neighborhood of Oranienbaum”, 1854 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Country road”, 1873 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Rustic View”, 1867 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “The Pechersky Monastery Near Nizhny Novgorod”, 1871 — Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
• “Rafts”, 1868
• “Spring Thaw”
• “Spring. The Rooks Have Arrived.”, 1872
• “The Rooks Have Arrived”, 1880
• “Early Spring. Thaw”, 1885
• “Night on the Sparrow Hills”, 1881
• “Sea of Mud.”, 1894
• “Rainbow”, 1875
• “Monastery Gates”, 1875
• “Sundown over a marsh”, 1871
• “Tomb on the banks of the Volga”, 1871
• “View of Volga near Yurievts”, 1870
• “Dawn in the desert”, 1852
• “Autumn. Village near the stream”, 1870
• “Early Spring”
• “Evening Migration of birds”, 1874
• “Moonlit night. Landscape with fire”, 1890
• “Autumn Landscape with a swampy river in the moonlight”, 1871
• “View of the Moscow Kremlin”, 1873
• “Rooks arrived. Landscape with Church”, 1894
• “Winter”, 1871–1885 — Russian Museum
• “Spring Evening, Alder Blossoming”, 1880s — Russian Museum
• “Night Scene on the Volga”, 1871 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
• “View of the Kremlin from Krimsky bridge in Inclement Weather”, 1851 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “The Rooks Have Arrived”, 1881–1900 — Russian Museum
• “Early Spring, High Water”, 1868 — Russian Museum
• “Sukharev Tower in Moscow”, 1872 — State Historical Museum
• “Losiny ostrov (Moose island)”, 1881
• “Landscape with a Rainbow”, 1881 — Latvian National Museum of Art
• “Grave”, 1884
• “Nomads around a fire on the plain in moonlight”, 1852
• “Landscape with a river and angler”, 1859 — Art Museum Riga Bourse
• “The Beginning of Spring”, 1888 — Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
• “Spring motive”, 1877 — Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts

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