Among all Russian landscape painters, Shishkin undoubtedly belongs to the place of the most powerful. There are few artists whose work has received such wide fame and universal recognition and has earned such sincere love from their compatriots. Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin is one of the largest Russian landscape painters. Imbued with endless love for the Motherland, the master throughout his life sang of its extraordinary beauty, conveying the special, majestic spirit of Russian nature. The artist’s canvases are rightfully considered masterpieces of the treasury of world art, and his talent revealed a new era of Russian landscape of the 19th century. Cover: Ivan Shishkin. "Rye".