1879
oil on canvas
63,5 x 50

The small picture, nearly study-like in terms of the manner of its painting, puts across a feeling of the depth and omnitude of space. You seem to be entering Nature's magnificent cathedral, where the earthly and heavenly paths are within reach of each other. The trunks of pine trees stretch solemnly upwards; set ablaze, as if in a bonfire of flames, the yellow foliage of maples illuminates the dark avenue. The artist abandons a rigorous realistic manner, applying paint in varying broken brushstrokes, with the painting surface acquiring as a result a heightened emotional charge, The fragile female figure seems to be here by accident, lost among desolate avenues of a deserted park. This lonely soul is preoccupied with her own thoughts and does not notice the austere solemnity of her environment, its pensive sadness. Levitan captured typical for his time discord between the human soul and eternal world of nature.

at 10, Lavrushinsky Lane, Hall 37