Popular publication about the remarkable landscape painter Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844-1927). The work of Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov is one of the most significant phenomena in Russian painting in the second half of the 19th century. A wonderful landscape painter, he developed a system of plein air painting in Russian art, created works full of poetry and lyricism, beauty and truthfulness, freshness of a pictorial solution. His paintings "Moscow Courtyard," "Grandmother's Garden," "Christ and the Sinner," "On Lake Tiberias (Genisaret)" brought recognition to the artist.