The Rooks Have Returned, known in Russian as Grachi Prileteli, is an 1871 oil-on-canvas landscape by the Russian painter Alexei Savrasov, measuring 62 by 48.5 centimeters and held in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It shows the first signs of a Russian spring: rooks settling into birch trees above melting snow, with a village church and bell tower visible in the distance. Pavel Tretyakov bought the painting in the summer of 1871 for 600 rubles, and it was shown that November at the first exhibition of the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions, where it was singled out for praise, including by the painter Ivan Kramskoi, who said it was the one landscape in the show that had a soul. It is regarded as Savrasov's most famous work and a landmark in the development of Russian landscape painting. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The canvas was exhibited in 1963 at the State Russian Museum exhibit of Savrasov's works in Leningrad, and in 1971 it was included in the reconstruction of the First Travelling Exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
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The Rooks Have Returned (Russian: Грачи прилетели, lit. 'The rooks have flown in') is a widely known landscape painting by Russian painter Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897). It was created in 1871 and is kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery (inv.
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The painting is on canvas, in oil, and measures 62 × 49.5 cm.
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The Rooks Have Returned (Russian: Грачи прилетели, lit. 'The rooks have flown in') is a widely known landscape painting by Russian painter Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897). It was created in 1871 and is kept in the State Tretyakov Gall
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The Rooks Have Returned (Russian: Грачи прилетели, lit. 'The rooks have flown in') is a widely known landscape painting by Russian painter Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897).
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The Rooks Have Returned (Russian: Грачи прилетели, lit. 'The rooks have flown in') is a widely known landscape painting by Russian painter Alexei Savrasov (1830-1897).
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