The whole life of Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin was devoted to nature and connected with it. He loved the forest and all living things. Mikhail Mikhailovich was already a very old man, but he could still go far into the forest and wander there from morning till evening, either with a basket for mushrooms, or with a gun and a hunting dog, and certainly with his notebook. Prishvin loved and understood the forest so much that even in an ordinary hare cabbage he saw something interesting: it closed under the hot sun, and opened up to the rain so that it could get more rains. As if she is a sentient being!

M.M. Prishvin did not write much especially for children. He cannot be called a children's writer. But he highly valued literature for children: "The highest literature that can bring the greatest aesthetic pleasure to adults is also children's literature." And much of what Prishvin wrote was included in the golden fund of children's literature.

Prishvin admitted: "Writing for children is not easy: you have to be very simple, in nothing, however, without betraying your skill."

Mikhail Mikhailovich especially loved our Russian forest. Read his books and you will find out how many miracles he saw there.

He taught us to love our native land, to take care of it, he turned to us: “We are the masters of our nature, and it is for us the storehouse of the sun with the great treasures of life. Not only should these treasures be protected, they must be opened and shown.
Fish need clean water - we will protect our reservoirs. In the forests, steppes, mountains, various valuable animals - we will protect our forests, steppes, mountains.
Fish - water, bird - air, beast - forest, steppe, mountains. And a man needs a homeland. And to protect nature means to protect the homeland. "

When you read Prishvin's stories, it will seem to you that the writer took you by the hand and led you along. You will see, as if with your own eyes, everything that is written in them, learn to love and understand your native nature even better. She will become your friend. And when a person has a real friend, he becomes smarter and kinder.
M.M. Prishvin (1873 - 1954) is a remarkable writer. He wrote many books, and each of them brings more and more new discoveries.

• Prishvin, M. Birch bark tube: a collection of stories / M. Prishvin; artist E. Rachev. - M.: Malysh, 1983 .-- 109 p. : ill.
  Are there wizards in the world?
  There was such a kind wizard on earth. He understood the language of birds, understood the language of animals and animals. And he talked to them himself. And he understood the conversation of the trees. And he greeted the flowers. And he drank water from a mushroom cap, and the sun showed him its ruby \u200b\u200beye, and sang songs in drops ... and this magician was a good, kind writer Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin.
• Prishvin, M. In the land of Mazai's grandfather: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. G. Nikolsky. - M.: Det. lit., 1973 .-- 95 p. : ill.
  The land of Grandfather Mazai - the wooded banks of the Volga near Kostroma, described by Nekrasov in the poem "Grandfather Mazai and the Hares". Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin came here in his mobile home, hitched to a truck, and lived from early spring to late autumn, observing changes in nature, studying the life of its inhabitants.
• Prishvin, M. Vasya Veselkin: stories / M. Prishvin; artist G. Nikolsky and V. Yudin. - M.: Det. lit., 1990 .-- 32 p. : ill.
  The book includes stories: "The Golden Hand", "Vasya Veselkin", "What the crayfish are whispering about" and "Fox's bread".
• Prishvin, M. Spring of light: selected / M. Prishvin. - M.: Mol. guard, 1955 .-- 669 p. : ill.
  In the preface to this edition, Prishvin wrote: “I understand myself, as an author, the spokesman for the idea that unites us in the word Motherland. In addition, I wanted to carry out in this book the idea that, in the end, the works of the author are a bigger deal than the work of his "skill". They are the result of the creative behavior of his entire life.
  In addition, the task of this publication, in my opinion, is to help to see clearly our present and the contours of future life.
• Prishvin, M. Vyskochka: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. E. Charushin and G. Nikolsky. - M.: Det. lit., 1966 .-- 31 p. : ill.
  This book contains several stories about birds and animals. Reading them, you will immediately feel how much the writer loves nature, knows it and how fascinatingly he tells his young readers about it.
• Prishvin, M. Eyes of the Earth / M. Prishvin; comp. V. Ya.Kurbatov. - M.: Education, 1989 .-- 303 p. : ill.
  The collection contains the works of M. M. Prishvin, written by him in different years and giving an idea of \u200b\u200bhis remarkable work.
• Prishvin, M. Talking Rook: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. E. Racheva. - M.: Det. lit., 1978 .-- 94 p. : ill.
  The book includes stories included in the school curriculum: "Yarik", "Forest floors", "Elk", etc.
  
  
  
• Prishvin, M. Guests: story / M. Prishvin; artist V. Frolov. - M.: Malysh, 1984 .-- p. - ill.
  A fascinating, funny story about the friendship of a person with birds.
• Prishvin, M. The Way to a Friend: Diaries / M. Prishvin; comp. A. Grigoriev; fig. V. Zvontsov. - L.: Det. lit., 1978 .-- 190 p. : ill.
  The relationship between nature, man and art is the main theme of the diaries of the famous writer - naturalist M.M. Prishvin.
• Prishvin, M. Dear animals: stories / M. Prishvin; artist F. Zinatulin. - Vladivostok: Book. ed., 1971. - 114 p. : ill.
  With great love, the writer tells about the inhabitants of the forests of the Far East and the Far North: deer, sables, ermines, foxes, etc.
• Prishvin, M. Zhurka: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. K. Bezborodova. - M.: Malysh, 1978 .-- 21 p. : ill.
  Readers of preschool age will be interested in stories about animals: dogs, chickens, cranes, ducklings.
• Prishvin, M. The Chipmunk Beast: Stories / M. Prishvin; artist T. D. Vasilieva. - Petrozavodsk: Karelia, 1978 .-- 23 p. : ill.
  Fascinating stories about forest animals: deer, chipmunks, leopards, bears, etc.
• Prishvin, M. Mirror of man / M. Prishvin; comp. T. N. Bednyakova; silt B. A. Shkolnik. - M.: Pravda, 1985 .-- 672 p. : ill.
  The collection contains three books by M.M. Prishvin, compiled from diaries. All of them are about nature, which Prishvin understands in his own way: "To understand nature, one must be very close to man, and then nature will be a mirror, because man contains all of nature in him."
• Prishvin, M. Golden meadow: stories / M. Prishvin; artist V. N. Chinyonova, S. L. Chinyonov. - Petrozavodsk: Karelia, 1981 .-- 191 p. : ill.
  Wonderful stories about animals living next to humans.
  
  
  
• Prishvin, M. Calendar of nature / M. Prishvin. - Minsk: Urajay, 1977 .-- 240 p. : ill.
  Naturalistic notes by M. Prishvin are full of deep philosophical meaning: they are devoted not only to the seasons, but also reveal the unique beauty of the nature of the native land, help, in the words of the author, to find in it the beautiful sides of the human soul, "to feel ... your own soul."
• Prishvin, M. Pantry of the sun: fairy tale and stories / M. Prishvin; fig. E. Racheva. - M.: Det. lit., 1979 .-- 112 p. : ill. - (School library).
  The stories of the remarkable writer and natural scientist MM Prishvin will help to understand and fall in love with the native nature: "Lisichkin's bread", "Forest doctor", "Mysterious box" and the story-tale "Pantry of the sun".
• Prishvin, M. Forest owner / M. Prishvin. - M.: Hood. lit., 1954 .-- c.
  M. Prishvin's stories about native nature are full of reflections on the relationship between man and nature, their interaction.
• Prishvin, M. Lisichkin bread: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. N. Ustinova. - M.: Det. lit., 1973 .-- 94 p. : ill.
  Childhood country ... Golden meadow. Pantry of the sun. The land of grandfather Mazay. All these works of the writer are full of joyful surprise and the first discovery of the world from a meeting with nature.
• Prishvin, M. To my young friends: stories and stories / M. Prishvin; fig. G. Nikolsky. - M.: Det. lit., 1973 .-- 319 p. : ill.
  The scientist, traveler, master of artistic words M.M. Prishvin poetically describes the life of nature at different times of the year, opens the world of fascinating phenomena to the reader, teaches him to take a thrifty, businesslike attitude to the natural resources of his native country.
  
  
  
• Prishvin, M. My country / M. Prishvin. - M.: Geographer. lit., 1954 .-- 455 p. : ill.
  M.M. Prishvin is a singer of his native nature, his native land and the Russian people. He reflected in his works the deep love of our people for their homeland, people, nature. Prishvin's works are deeply patriotic. “My country is a book of poems, essays and small poems in prose about the Motherland.
• Prishvin, M. Birds under the snow: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. E. Charushina. - M.: Det. lit., 1969 .-- 31 p. : ill.
  Interesting stories about animals and birds that live next to humans.
• Prishvin, M. Conversation of trees: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. N. Ustinova. - M.: Det. lit., 1983 .-- 23 p. : ill.
  Kind stories about native nature: about a dandelion under the window, about ducklings in a swamp, about a forest hedgehog, about a crane Zhurka.
• Prishvin, M. Stories / M. Prishvin; fig. E. Racheva. - M.: Det. lit., 1975 .-- 64 p. : ill.
  Many stories and stories about nature and animals were written by the wonderful writer Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin. Both adults and children love to read his books, because the writer knew how to simply and fascinatingly talk about what secrets nature reveals to an intelligent, kind and sensitive person.
• Prishvin, M. Guys and ducklings: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. D. Khaikin. - M.: Det. lit., 1956 .-- 16 p. : ill.
  The book includes three stories: "Lisichkin Bread", "Inventor", "Guys and Ducklings".
  
  
  
• Prishvin, M. Gray Owl / M. Prishvin; fig. and a photo of the Gray Owl; formalized. G. Epishina. - M.: Det. lit., 1971 -175 p. : ill.
  The Gray Owl is a well-known Indian writer, author of wonderful works about the nature of Canada, its virgin forests and wild inhabitants.
  M. M. Prishvin fell in love with the writer Gray Owl and carefully retold his interesting story.
• Prishvin, M. Blue feathers: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. P. Bagina. - M.: Det. lit., 1985 .-- 31 p. : ill.
  Collection of stories about forest animals and birds: woodpecker, woodcock, lizards, squirrel, badger, etc.
• Prishvin, M. Watch and listen to lilies / M. Prishvin. - Elista: Kalmyk book. publishing house, 1980 .-- 191 p. : ill.
  The book includes the most famous stories of the writer about animals, natural phenomena and seasons, about the role of man in the life of nature.
• Prishvin, M. Yarik: stories / M. Prishvin; fig. E. Charushina. - M.: Det. lit., 1978 .-- 16 p. : ill.
  The book includes a series of stories about hunting dogs: Yarik, Romka and hazel grouse.

Ch. librarian Trushova N.N.

KOSTINA ALENA, student of group 21

GOU SPO "Staritsky College".

supervisor ANDREEVA D. A.,

teacher of GOU SPO "Staritskiy College".

(Works of the artist I. I. Levitan on the Tver land)

In the 70-80s. the main trends in the development of Russian painting were determined by young artists, who united in 1870 under the leadership of I. N. Kramskoy in the "Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions". The critic V.V. Stasov and the philanthropist P. Tretyakov played an important role.

The post-reform period, the starting point of which was the abolition of serfdom, is a unique stage in the development of Russian artistic culture. Never before has art participated so passionately and passionately in social and cultural events. The fine arts were directly connected with social life, influenced it, being a conductor of fundamentally important political ideas and moral attitudes.

By the second half of the 19th century. the functions of painting in Russian society have radically changed. If earlier it served the idea of \u200b\u200bdecorating life and was called upon, first of all, to please the eye with harmony of forms and perfection of colorful solutions, then in the post-reform period the aesthetic moment was no longer considered the main thing. It seemed to the artists more important to truthfully capture on canvas the world of poverty, lawlessness, misery, to take a critical look at traditional folk life, and to deeply express the feelings and experiences of various classes. Rejection of social order, the ability to “get sick” with the imperfection and injustice of life - all this became a characteristic feature of Russian painting of the post-reform period and spoke of the involvement of its creators in the fate of Russia and the Russian people. Belief in the educational mission of art and its social significance contributed to the birth of a brilliant galaxy of masters of classical realistic painting.

Aesthetics of the new realistic landscape of the 19th century. is formed on the path of critical rethinking of the traditions of the academic and late romantic landscape. Offering the artist a sum of ready-made recipes on how to choose a fascinating look and effectively compose a beautiful picture, these traditions taught to see and depict nature, cleansed of everyday life and hindered the development of a living realistic sense of nature. Not exceptional views and phenomena, obviously beautiful, but poetry, born of prose, from the experience of ordinary, everyday communication with nature - this is the task of a realistic landscape. This was the path of its democratization, the introduction of emotions, moods and assessments inherent in the broad masses of the people into the landscape image.

Many outstanding artists of that time worked in the realistic direction, such as A. Savrasov, I. Shishkin, F. Vasiliev, A. Kuindzhi.

It was during this period that the work of Isaac Ilyich Levitan falls.

Isaac Ilyich Levitan was born on August 18 (August 30 in the new style), 1860 in the settlement of Kybarty (now this city is located in Lithuania) near the Verzhbolovo station in an intelligent Jewish family. The future artist's grandfather was a rabbi. His father, Ilya Abramovich, continuing the family tradition, was also preparing to become a rabbi, but in the end he chose the secular service for himself. He served on the railway as a translator, controller, and cashier. He was a teacher of foreign languages. In his last capacity, he moved to Moscow, hoping that the children there (there were four of them) would receive a more decent education. This happened in 1870.

Isaac Levitan received his education at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1873-1884).

Meanwhile, he lived very hard during these years. In 1875 his mother died, and two years later his father. Levitan was left without a livelihood. He had nowhere to lay his head, he was literally starving.

Life began better after meeting P.M. Tretyakov, who bought the painting “Autumn Day. Sokolniki ". At the same time, there was a rapprochement with S. Mamontov and the Abramtsevo art circle founded by him.

The next, 1887, turned out to be a milestone in the fate of the painter. He first met the Volga, which became a huge theme of his work. He spent four summers in a row on the great Russian river. Isaac Ilyich traveled to the Volga not alone, but with S.P. Kuvshinnikova. Over the years spent with Sofya Petrovna, Levitan created many of his famous paintings, which approved him as a leading Russian painter.

Levitan's fame grew. In 1891, the artist became a member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions.

Levitan closely followed the latest artistic trends, in his declining years he became close to the "World of Art" and with its leaders - S. Diaghilev and A. Benois.

In search of inspiration, the artist Isaac Ilyich Levitan traveled a lot.

In the Tver province, in the estate of the Panafidins-Wulfs, Kurovo-Pokrovskoye, he first arrived in the spring of 1891. Lika Mizinova, Levitan's friend, N.P.'s niece, gave him a recommendation to visit the estate. Panafidina.

In our area, he appeared accompanied by Sofia Petrovna Kuvshinnikova.

As a token of gratitude, Levitan painted a portrait of the owner of the house, N.P. Panafidin, depicting him sitting in an armchair. In the same summer, a second portrait of the owner of the house appeared. These two works are a rare exception in Levitan's work, he was a "pure" landscape painter and a person was not present in his paintings.

The result of Levitan's stay in our area was the birth of one of his most significant canvases "At the Pool".

A whirlpool is a cross-cutting image of Russian culture. A mystery is always associated with him - is it an unhappy love, is it a terrible crime, or a meeting with something that is beyond comprehension. This is the world of mermaids and goblin, this is the world of unearthly insights and terrible despair. “Everyone had their own pool in life,” Levitan said to his companion. He caught this anxious mood and expressed it in pictorial means. It was his credo: "You don't need to decorate nature," the artist argued, "but you need to feel its essence and free you from accidents."

The artist created a canvas of rare impressive power: the general twilight tone of the picture, the mysteriously calm surface of the whirlpool, the gloomy evening sky, the reddish reflections of the sunset on the water, the deserted path, as if hiding among dark bushes - all this creates an image of nature, full of alarming alertness, hidden drama.

With the departure from the Panafidins' estate, Levitan's creative ties with the Tver region did not end.

His next visit to the Tver land took place in the spring of 1893. And on this trip he was accompanied by S.P. Kuvshinnikova. They stopped at the old estate of the Ushakovs in the village of Ostrovno.

Here, in the lake district, his central canvas "Above Eternal Peace" was born, about which the artist wrote to Pavel Tretyakov: "I am in it all with all my psyche, with all my content ...".

"Over Eternal Peace" is one of the deepest, philosophically rich works of Levitan. Written with great enthusiasm, to the inspiring sounds of Beethoven's heroic symphony, it itself is perceived as a solemn requiem that embodied Levitan's thoughts about the short duration of human existence and the greatness of the inexhaustible mighty forces of nature.

Three elements are represented on the canvas - dark water, wet earth and raging sky; it is they, being composed and reconstituted in an aspiration incomprehensible to a person, that form the formidable image of nature, characteristic of this work.

The picture presents the viewer with an obvious opposition to the eternity of the solemn life of nature and the frailty of human existence.

The painting "Above Eternal Peace" Levitan considered the most significant of his works.

In March 1894 Levitan came to our region for the third time. He stopped in Gorka - the estate of his acquaintances the Turchaninovs.

The painting "March" became a masterpiece.

Levitan has always humanized nature, primarily with his lyrical perception of its beauty. Everything in Martha is in a struggle: winter with spring, warm sunlight with cold azure, dark pines with light meandering aspens, dazzling spots of snow with blue shadows, a large dome bright - blue sky and a large piece of bright yellow wall. It would seem that such contrasts should "argue" among themselves, but they are brilliantly reconciled by the great artist. The warmth of the golden sun imperceptibly penetrates into the cold blue sky, and the yellowness of the wall is enveloped by the blue reflexes of the sky - and nothing "screams", does not irritate the viewer's eyes, but, on the contrary, creates a harmonious melody of colors.

In this canvas, Levitan depicts nature, as it were, in close-up, without unnecessary details.

Painting “Spring. Big Water ”also belongs to the most significant works of Levitan.

"Spring. Big Water ”is one of the most subtle, lyrical paintings by Levitan. It is filled with truly spring light and quiet joy, surprisingly "song" and "musical" in all its internal and external compositional rhythm. A carefree, light joy, some of its calm fullness comes from the picture. The plot of the spring resurrection of nature, optimistic, light and joyful, is the basis on which the light, lyrical content of the picture unfolds.

In the fall of 1895, Levitan began work on one of the most poignant works in terms of subtlety of feelings - "Golden Autumn".

The artist painted "Golden Autumn", his most famous work, on the Tver estate of Gorka, which belonged to A. N. Turchaninova, and built it on bold color contrasts. The sky washed to a transparent blue, the gold of foliage, the greenery of withered grass merge into something irreplaceable and eternal - into the beauty of the world, enchanting and enlightening a person. Levitan "understood," wrote A. Golovin, "like no one else, the gentle, transparent charm of Russian nature ...."

Painting "Golden Autumn" is the most popular painting by Levitan, dedicated to the Russian autumn. This picture is distinguished by its brightness and increased decorativeness.

At this time, he conceived his final picture, which he wanted to call "Rus". Death will cut short work on this canvas. Unfinished, it will appear in the Russian Museum of St. Petersburg under the name "Lake".

1896 - the period of Levitan's last visit to Gorka, to the Tver region. The houses in Udomla, where the artist lived, have not survived.

Levitan returns to Moscow. Great recognition came to him. Meanwhile, the artist develops a severe heart disease. Levitan died on August 4, 1900.

"He breathed life with nature alone" - this line from Baratynsky was quoted by Levitan in a letter to V. Goltsev. It all starts with his love of nature. The whole world of Levitan is indissolubly connected with her. He went into nature, and she gave him everything, helped him forget bitterness and fatigue, resentment and failure, the severity of losses and illness. How many times did she give him minutes when he was happier, kinder, cleaner!

Levitan's paintings are deserted, but human. They carry a high moral content. He knew how to talk about a person through a landscape, was able to "seek and discover in nature - in the words of M. M. Prishvin - the beautiful sides of the human soul."

It's sad that the artist's life flashed so quickly and irrevocably. How many people could become happy seeing his new canvases, grieve, rejoice, suffer, because behind these paintings is love and bitterness, pain and joy of life, behind them is the homeland and the artist's own life.

The artists leave, but the paintings keep the beating of their hearts. Years will pass, other artists will come, they will replace the departed. They will replace, but not replace. “A masterpiece of art is born forever. Dante doesn't cross Homer, ”Hugo said.

There are writers whose books become human friends from an early age. These include Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin. This is a hard-working writer, a patriotic writer, a travel writer.

A meeting in the ecological agency "Lesovichok and K" of the children's library of the Oktyabrsky microdistrict was devoted to the 140th anniversary of M. Prishvin. Young “forestry” prepared for the anniversary meeting in advance: they read all the author's books, the list of which was given to them in advance, prepared answers to questions and tasks on the work of M. Prishvin.
In the library at a media lesson, schoolchildren got acquainted with the biography of the writer, learned that Prishvin's great love for nature was born thanks to his love for man: “I write about nature, I myself think about people”. A scientist, a traveler, a master of artistic words - Prishvin described the life of nature at different times of the year, opened the world of amazing phenomena to the reader, taught him to treat the country's natural resources with care and business. Mikhail Mikhailovich knew everything about nature, understood its language. This extraordinary gift came from his mother, who taught him to get up early, before sunrise. Throughout his life, the writer kept this child in himself, looking at the wonderful world with wide open, joyful and amazing eyes. Prishvin's books are the alphabet of nature, which teaches people to be frugal.
Prishvin is firmly entrenched in the definition of "the singer of nature."
Indeed, nature is the writer's creative laboratory, his study. Here he drew poetic inspiration and "wrote down" many amazing phenomena directly from nature. And man is part of nature. He will cut down forests, pollute the rivers and the air, destroy animals and birds - and he himself will not be able to live on a dead planet. That is why Prishvin addressed the children: “My young friends! We are the masters of our nature, and for us it is the storehouse of the sun with the great treasures of life ...
Fish - water, bird - air, beast - forest, steppe, mountains. And a man needs a homeland. And to protect nature means to protect the homeland. "
Mikhail Mikhailovich loved the forest. He went there for discoveries: “It was necessary to find in nature something that I had not yet seen, and perhaps no one had ever met this in their life,” wrote Prishvin.
May every encounter with nature be a wonderful discovery for the agency's young ecologists and for all readers of the children's library. And the books by Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin will help make these discoveries!
At the end of the meeting, the schoolchildren listened with interest to the poem "In Memory of Prishvin" by the sailor-poet D. Tikhonov, turned over the pages of his books at the anniversary book exhibition "Singer of Nature" and received bookmarks for books from the library with the writer's address to children.

“He breathed life with nature alone

Brooks understood babbling,

And the talk of the wood sheets understood

And I felt the grass vegetation. "

On January 25, 1832, one of the most popular Russian artists, Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, was born. Ivan Ivanovich was the creator of the Russian epic landscape. Shishkin's legacy is enormous: hundreds of paintings, thousands of sketches and drawings, many etchings. The titanic work has evoked deep respect from contemporaries.
I. Shishkin was born in the city of Elabuga on the Kama into a merchant family. Thanks to his father, a passionate lover of nature, he discovered its greatness and beauty as a child. From 1852 to 1856 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and from 1856 to 1860 - at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Here his views as a person and an artist developed. 70-90 years of the XIX century - the time of the highest creative achievements of Shishkin, among which, of course, belongs to his famous "Rye" (1878).

In the painting "Rye" I.I. Shishkin created a stately image of the Russian land, immensely spacious, harsh and beautiful. For his painting, the artist chose a canvas of a rather large size and horizontal format and built the composition in such a way that the road involuntarily leads our gaze into the endless depth of the golden sea of \u200b\u200brye. The pines in this picture were compared to mighty heroes standing in the middle of a wide field.
With paintings by A.K. Savrasov and F.A. Vasiliev wants to be left alone, the epic-majestic world of the work of I.I. Shishkina is addressed to many people at once. This is a typical Russian flat landscape. The painting makes a strong impression due to the extraordinary vitality of the motive, the inner integrity of the image and the depth of expression of the artistic idea. One feels that, creating it, the artist was filled with great faith in the riches of nature, which she generously rewards human labor. In the painting by I.I. Shishkina's rye is the work of the people, the result of the creative power and scope inherent in the Russian people.
In 1884, I. Shishkin performed another equally well-known work - the painting "Forest Distances". This painting is freely and widely painted. Before our gaze, a majestic panorama of woodlands unfolds, somewhere in the distance, among the dark greenery, a forest lake or bend of a river turns blue. In this work, Shishkin solved complex and in many ways new for himself pictorial tasks: the endless green massif is diverse and complex in color, but the light haze of morning fog enveloping the distance helped the artist unite all colors in a single calm colorful scale. The general cold bluish-green tone of the picture, as it were, carries the breath of the northern summer. The artistic language of Shishkin's painting "Forest Distant" is strict, measured, dignified. As in all of his best works, the image of nature is based on a combination of deep knowledge of nature and a high degree of epic generalization.

A student of the Academy, Shishkin retained a gravitation towards monumental dimensions, towards the priority of chiaroscuro and drawing over color, he strove to create a general impression of the power, strength, greatness of Russian nature. Its nature is static, sometimes rendered in a protocolly dry manner. But he seeks in her not the fickle, which attracted, for example, the Impressionists, but the eternal. Not a change of season or day, as in Claude Monet, but something unshakable, constant: the flowering of summer, ripe rye, evergreen pines, etc.
I.I.Shishkin is a truly great artist, and his contemporaries already understood this well. So, I.N. Kramskoy wrote that "Shishkin is a milestone in the development of the Russian landscape, this is a man-school." The well-known art critic V. Stasov wrote: “Only that art, great, necessary and sacred, which does not lie and does not fantasize, which does not amuse itself with old toys, but looks with all eyes at what is happening everywhere around us, and, forgetting the former lordly division of plots into high and low, with a flaming chest pressed against everything where there is poetry, thought and life "(" Our artistic affairs "). At times Stasov was inclined to regard the urge to express great ideas that excite society as one of the characteristic national features of Russian art.

20.01.2018

January 19 in MBOU "Secondary School No. 1 named after M.M. Prishvin "held a regular meeting of the club" Regional Studies " children's library-branch №1 named after A.S. Pushkin, which was dedicated to the 145th anniversary of the birth of our fellow countryman - Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin ... Participants literary portrait-acquaintance of M.M. Prishvin "He breathed life with nature alone ..." students of the 10th grade MBOU "Secondary School No. 1 named after M.M. Prishvina ".
Mikhail Mikhailovich was a writer, scientist, traveler, poet who glorified the beauty of native nature and about whom the writer V. Peskov said: "Opening Prishvin's books, we walk along a magic bridge between Nature and Man ...".

The meeting began with a speech by the head of the club, EI Taravkova, who read a poem by Dmitry Tikhonov “In Memory of Prishvin”. Then T.A. Semenets (senior researcher of the local history museum), who was invited to the meeting. She introduced the children to the presentation “MM Prishvin. 145th Birthday Anniversary ”, from which the children learned interesting biographical facts about MM Prishvin.
Tatiana Aleksandrovna also remembered Mikhail Mikhailovich's travels in the Russian North or Pomorie. It was through its territories that Prishvin made a trip in 1906, and about which, returning to St. Petersburg, he wrote a book "In the Land of Unafraid Birds", for which he was awarded the silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society and was elected its full member. And in 1907, Mikhail Mikhailovich again went to the North, and upon his return he created the book "For the Magic Kolobok", in which he admirably described the northern nature.

The students got acquainted with the main, as the writer himself believed, the book - "Diaries", which Mikhail Mikhailovich wrote for almost half a century (1905-54) and in which he also described his travels.
The whole event was accompanied by a slide show with photographs, the author of which was the writer himself, as well as reading excerpts from "Diaries", "In the Land of Unafraid Birds" and "Behind the Magic Kolobok". T.A. Semenets made riddles to children about animals, plants and birds, which often became heroes of Mikhail Mikhailovich's works.
A book exhibition "On the land where Prishvin lived ..." was arranged for the event..

At the meeting, the guys made a trip to the world of Prishvin's books, and felt the beauty, accuracy and picturesqueness of the language of his works. At the end of the event, the students read stories - miniatures by M.M. Prishvina ("The Old Linden", "Ball on the River", "The First Flower", "It's Cold for the Osinkas", etc.)

And the event ended with the words of M. Prishvin: “I grow out of the ground like grass, bloom like grass, they mow me down, horses eat me, and I turn green again in spring and in summer for Peter's day. You can’t do anything about it, and they will destroy me only if the Russian people are over, but it does not end, but maybe it’s just beginning. ”

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