, settling in bekhovo, living in bekhovo will come true with us , they already had theirs in mind thehat is, this whole... dream, they had it somehow formed, all that remained was to buy land, having looked at the estate of soblukova, who had gone bankrupt, in bekhovo, vasily dmich gathered the funds, yes you are correct in saying that this coincided with the sale of a large canvas, which of you is without sin or christ and the sinner, this canvas is now in the russian museum in st. petersburg, in the former imperial collection, and indeed, even before the opening day, imperial family... i came to inspect the exhibition of the itinerants and alexander ii became interested in this canvas and agreed to buy this canvas, as they say, even for his billiard room, after vasil dmich made such a very profitable deal for himself, 30,000 rubles, but with silver, here that is, not just 30,000 rubles. 30,000 rubles in silver, this was a sufficiently lucrative sum for... mitch was able to make this purchase of his entire life, buy this estate for the bankrupt estate of sablukovy, where he had a sma

i then returned there again and kept my eye on the exact place for the name bekhovo, this bekhovo, it for what reasons? well, it seems to me that there is a combination of reasons here, firstly, first of all, polenov did not really want to live in moscow from the very beginning; he grew up, as you probably know, in karelia, near petrozavodsk, and was attracted to him from early childhood. he was attracted to the coniferous forest, and he really really loved these pine trees, coniferous forests, and he really wanted to live somewhere away from the big city, but to his main idea enlightenment in the russian province, he came much later, having already settled in polenovo, initially he just wanted to be in nature, and of course he played a big role in the fact that vasily settled. it was in these places that tarusa played, because the family of ivan vladimovich tsvitaev had already settled in tarusa, tarusa was already becoming some kind of epicenter of creative life, we also call it a russian barbezon, and vasily dmitovich, once there, of course, wanted to be somewhere nearby, he saw be

, this is bekhovo, it absolutely captivated vasily dmitrievich, for what reasons?t really want to live in moscow from the very beginning; he grew up, as you probably know, in karelia, near petrozavodsk, from early childhood, he was attracted to nature, he was attracted to the coniferous forest, and he really really loved... these very pine trees, coniferous forests, and he really wanted to live somewhere far from the big city, but to his main idea of ​​​​enlightenment in the russian province , he came much later, having already settled in polenovo, initially he just wanted to be in nature, and of course tarusa played a big role in the fact that vasily dmitovich settled in these places, because ivan’s family had already settled in tarusa. he was captivated, he told his wife about how good it was there, and his wife natalya vasilyevna also writes in letters that is it really possible that the dream of staying in byokhovo, settling in byokhovo, living in byokhovo will come true with us, with them already ... the idea was their house, their workshop, natalia vasilievna