In the paintings of 1900-1904, Bogaevsky acted as a well-established artist with his original creative face. First of all, he found in the Crimean landscape an independent historical theme, which was developed and varied by him then for many years. The interpretation of this topic by the artist was also very original. He did not try to recreate a specific historical place associated with certain events of old days. Getting used to the spirit of the epoch, Bogaevsky sought in the modern landscape to feel a distant history and convey in his artistic image his “experience” of the past.
In their mood, Bogayevsky’s paintings written during this period were consonant with the works of Russian artists and writers, in which the old man was resurrected, retrospective motifs lived. In the picture along the stone coastal massif there is a wall of a medieval sentry fortification with windows-loopholes and fortress gates. Everything is shrouded in the darkness of the night. Moonlight falls on the fortress structures, stone paths that run to the water, and on the low scallops of the waves. Twilight twilight alarming. In the picture, the forms of the visible world give birth to ideas about the past, which is no longer visible to us, the life of the times of Odysseus and the Argonauts.
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