Winter landscape

Work on the painting Savrasov. Alexei Kondratyevich Savrasov was born on 12 (24) may 1830 in Moscow in the family of a poor merchant-haberdasher, who lived in Goncharnaya Sloboda Swivel on the hill, and was baptized in the parish Church of the great Martyr Nikita, which over the Yauza river. Childhood Alexey was mainly in the protected corners of Zamoskvorechye - the family lived on Yakimanka, on Pyatnitskaya street, then the Kaluga Zastava. Attraction to art was awakened early: at twelve years of self-taught, Alex has already learned to hold a brush, and wrote a gouache and watercolour landscapes with images of fashion while romantic motives, like "Eruption of Vesuvius" or "Storm at sea" (in the spirit of Aivazovsky), willingly backupassist at a cheap price dealers from Nikolskaya street and ilyinskikh gate. But the path to great art was not easy.