The Vladimirka
Isaac Levitan · 1892
Why it's great
A lonely, wide road stretches across a gloomy plain under a gray sky. The Vladimirka was the road along which prisoners were marched to Siberia. Levitan painted a quiet, sorrowful landscape. It's a landscape with a story of suffering.
Where to see it
📍 State Tretyakov GalleryMoscow, Russia
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Isaac Levitan was born in Lithuania to a Jewish family and grew up in Moscow, where he studied painting. He became one of Russia's greatest landscape painters, known for his poetic scenes of rivers, forests and quiet villages. He often painted along the Volga River. He died in Moscow in 1900, at age 39. Levitan was born into a poor Jewish family in Lithuania, and he rose to become one of the most beloved painters in Russia.
