Monthly Archives: October 2013

Averil King’s “Isaak Levitan: Lyrical Landscape”

Posted on October 25, 2013 by

Until my book comes out in the fall of 2015, King’s book is the only readily available work in English on Levitan. It was first published in 2004, expanded in a beautiful new edition by the Antique Collectors’ Club in … Continue reading →

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Sophia Kuvshinnikova’s Diary

Posted on October 5, 2013 by

People had widely divergent opinions of Sophia Kuvshinnikova, who was Levitan’s mistress from sometime in the late 1880s until 1894. Chekhov found her to be a social gadfly and couldn’t forgive her for cuckolding her husband, a hard-working and unassuming … Continue reading →

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