Why it matters
Levitan combined impressions of several monasteries he visited on the Upper Volga. Its success at the 1891 Peredvizhniki exhibition confirmed him as a leading Russian landscape painter.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1890.
- It measures 87.5 × 108 cm.
- It was lost after the revolution and rediscovered in 1960.
Based on the Wikipedia article A Quiet Monastery (CC BY-SA 4.0).
