Levitan, Isaak mk253 canvas 150 x 206 cm Moscow in 1894, the State Tretyakov Gallery collection Over the cemetery Russian Painter, 1860-1900
Russian painter of Lithuanian birth. He largely painted landscapes (including pastel sketches), which are noted for their emotive or symbolic resonance. His 'landscapes of mood' had a profound influence on Russian landscape painting, to which he introduced a sense of the unity of humankind and nature, and of the spiritual power of the Russian
