Among all Russian landscape painters, Shishkin undoubtedly belongs to the place of the strongest. There are few artists whose work has received such wide fame and universal recognition, has earned such sincere love of compatriots. Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is one of the largest Russian landscape painters . Penetrated by an endless love for the Motherland, the master throughout his life sang its extraordinary beauty images, conveying a special, majestic spirit of Russian nature. The canvases of the artist are rightfully considered masterpieces of the treasury of world art, and his talent represented a new era of the domestic landscape of the XIX century. Cover: Ivan Shishkin . "The Rose" (DT)