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Very much I love this picture!

Expressive turned out sketches for the painting "Above the Eternal Peace" in 1893. At the same time a sense of loneliness and helplessness in the picture Levitan is not overwhelming. Together with its imagery of living and other experiences of the artist, giving a great sheet, compared with a sketch, more philosophical calm and courageous emotional-metaphorical sense. Dovovlno strict and very clear composition canvases. Majestic sky in the painting, which elevates the head of a chapel with a sparkle teplyaschimsya in the window, bringing into the picture along with a sense of solitude and peace of the graves "heartfelt thoughts" of the artist on "light that darkness does not embrace, the eternal thirst for warmth, faith, hope, flame which again and again, century after century, "like a candle from a candle" lit people.

The work on the painting Levitan began in the village Garusova under Vishny Volochek Udomelskogo on the shore of the lake, is probably the only one of its "composed" landscape that is not based entirely on full-scale experiences, as well as to "assembled piece by piece, assembled from different designs. Already contemporaries Levitan argued, what place he portrayed in his painting, expressing different assumptions. Exact answer is no, and now, and so does this matter? It is not a specific kind of wondering if Levitan, and the embodiment of the transience of human life and the eternal life of nature. "Eternity is, terrible eternity, which drowned generation and sink more ... What a horror, the fear! "- Such are the thoughts of the artist pursued at the time of writing, painting.