After graduating from the Academy of Arts, Polenov saw himself as a historical painter and at first worked a lot in this direction. In Paris, he wrote two famous paintings

There is a certain irony of fate in this: Polenov is a generally recognized genius of landscape painting, he himself considered the most important paintings in his work, paintings on

Landscape in the work of Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov held a special place. Being addicted to this genre during the years of joint internship with Repin overseas internships, subsequently, Polenov changed