Tarusa in paintings by Russian artists
This small town on the high banks of the Oka River is known as the "Russian Barbizon". Writers and artists have been going there for inspiration since the late 19th century.
1 Vasily Polenov. ‘Oka. Summer Day’, 1890s
2 Maria Yakunchikova. ‘Tarusa Ferry’, 1893
3 Vasily Polenov ‘Tarusa. Golden Autumn’, 1900–1910s
4 Viktor Borisov-Musatov ‘On the Balcony in Tarusa’, 1905
5 Vasily Polenov ‘View of Tarusa’, 1910s
6 Fyodor Bogorodsky, ‘Summer Day in Tarusa’, 1939-1940
7 Nikolay Krymov. ‘Street in Tarusa’, 1952
8 Boris Sveshnikov ‘Tarusa’, 1954
9 Max Birshtein. ‘Winter in Tarusa’, 1968
10 Eduard Bragovsky. ‘Street in Tarusa’, 1971
