Моя жизнь

A brilliant master of landscape painting, a wonderful portrait painter and theater decorator, the founder of Russian impressionism, Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin left a great artistic and literary legacy that can hardly be overestimated. His life and work took place in an era rich in historical events, fate brought him together with outstanding people of his time - artists, actors, theatrical figures, patrons, many of whom became his close friends. Among them, M.A. Vrubel, V.A. Serov, I.I. Levitan, V.D. Polenov, A.K. Savrasov, F.I. Chaliapin, S.I. Mamontov.
While in exile, yearning for his homeland, Korovin completed his memoirs, begun in the early years of the revolution, wrote stories where, with poignant truth and simplicity, he captured Russia dear to his heart and those whom he loved and remembered. His stories, as a rule, are autobiographical, they are surprisingly "picturesque" and allow one to speak about the undoubted literary talent of the author. Once V.Ya. Svetlov very accurately named K.A. Korovin as a poet and artist of the word.