Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky, ctd

 Landscape

 Oaks (1884)

 The Road (1899)

 Skit on a Moonlit Night (1898)
[anyone know what "skit" refers to?]

 Summer Landscape (1905)

 The Khutir in Little Russia (1884)
[explanation of what "khutir" is]

 Village on the Banks of a River

Zvenigorod (1895)

3 comments:

  1. SInce you ask, Skit appears to be the name of a Russian town or area. See http://www.museumsyndicate.com/item.php?item=2912

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  2. Skit is that house. A small monastery.

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  3. Yes, "skit" is a small, very rustic, monastery, usually quite isolated, made of woo or carved in stone. A "skit" tends to be even more remote than a monastery

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