Savvinskaya settlement near Zvenigorod 1. 1884 Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860-1900)

Description of Isaac Levitan’s painting "Savvinskaya Sloboda near Zvenigorod".

Levitan, a sensual artistic lyricist, lived a short but fruitful life. A favorite pupil of Savrasov at the art school, where the future painter studied from the age of thirteen. The canvases created by him, and there are more than a thousand of them, are still appreciated at face value throughout the world.

A famous painter, landscape painter, extremely susceptible to his mood. This is reflected in his works, which he himself called "canvases of mood.

Levitan’s first love was Chekhov’s sister. His brother respected the painter, but strongly recommended and even insisted not to tie his life to him, due to the eternal uncertainty of the artist. After the failure, Levitan began a serious depression, which was reflected in his paintings.

An artist can’t just paint out of necessity. Each of his landscapes is performed on thin strings of the soul. Sometimes Levitan created canvases like a major chord. Sometimes, on the contrary, a dragging minority crept heavy clouds over the canvas.

Work in Savvinskaya Sloboda began in 1884, when Levitan arrived there with his old friend Perepletchikov. The result of the artist’s fruitful work was a whole cycle of paintings by the author, one of which was the painting "Savvinskaya Sloboda near Zvenigorod."

"Sloboda" is executed so naturally and vividly that it creates a feeling of lightness and airiness of the air near Moscow. Nesterov wrote about the artist that nobody had ever managed to see nature as peaceful as Levitan saw it.

The artist died in the prime of his creative powers from a long illness. He painted continuously. His last story remained incomplete, but it is, in all its incompleteness, of great artistic value.