Russian Forest As Viewed By Russian Officials
The Rooks Have Come Back, 1871 by Aleksey Savrasov
Did you know that trees in Russian cities are being destroyed in massive numbers? They do it under the “tree sanitation pruning excuse”, but in fact, it’s nothing but barbarism. Poorly educated and incompetent officials simply destroy nature in cities, and there’s not any logical explanation for such actions. Let us now see how the country painted by famous Russian artists would look after “sanitation pruning of trees”.
More: Ilya Varlamov (rus) h/t: englishrussia
Ivan Endogurov, Early Spring, 1885
Mikhail Hermashev, Autumn landscape, 1890s
Mikhail Clodt, Oaks, 1863
Arkhip Kuindzhi, Birch Grove, 1879
Vladimir Orlovsky, Landscape, 1882
Ivan Shishkin, The forest in the evening, 1869
Ivan Shishkin, A Rye Field, 1878
Ivan Shishkin, Morning in a Pine Forest, 1889
Efim Volkov, Landscape with a Pond, 1887
