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The Vladimirka Rode

                        by Isaac Levitan

Date of creation: 1893

Size:79x193

Style: Realism

Tehnique: Oil

Location: State Tretyakow, Moscow.

In the spring of 1893, a reporter from the Petersburgskaya Gazeta visited the Itinerant Exhibition and burst into abusive criticism: “The theme for the pictures is the Russian nature. The most unsightly, grey motives were chosen. What could be more boring than the ‘Vladimirka — the big road’ by Levitan...”