Sunny Crimea has always attracted artists – they went there for new artistic sensations, for new colors. In Crimea, nature is sharp, distinct, transparent, striking with unexpected shapes and multicoloredness, it seems to wash out a “soapy” look.
Shishkin also did not escape the general temptation and in the late 1870s he worked in the Crimea, bringing to Petersburg a lot of sketches. Twelve Crimean landscapes, such as Cape Ai-Todor, Crimea, 1879 and From the Surroundings of Gurzuf, he demonstrated in 1880 on a personal thematic exhibition.
At that time, similar thematic exhibitions were popular among the Wanderers – especially the five-year-old exhibition of Oriental studies by Polenov, perceived by young artists as a new word in painting, took place.
Desde el barrio de Gurzuf – Ivan Shishkin 
Noon. In the vicinity of Moscow by Ivan Shishkin 
Des environs de Gurzuf – Ivan Shishkin 
Crimea. Gurzuf by Konstantin Korovin 
On the beach by Ivan Shishkin 
Birch Grove by Ivan Shishkin 
Forest gave by Ivan Shishkin 
In the forest of Countess Mordvinova. Peterhof by Ivan Shishkin