work
The Rooks Have Come Back
The Rooks
also: Грачи прилетели, The Rooks Have Returned
Alexei Savrasov's celebrated 1871 landscape painting of returning rooks nesting in birches beside a thawing Russian village, one of the most famous works of the Peredvizhniki movement; the picture Chekhov specifically wants, refusing to settle for any other Savrasov.
Reading notes
- To I. K. Kondratyev, 21 October 1887. Moscow. §5 The Rooks
"The Rooks Have Come Back" (1871), Savrasov's celebrated landscape; Chekhov specifies that only this particular picture will do, not merely any work by the same painter, given how little money he has to spend.