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The Rooks Have Returned

painting by Savrasov
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The Rooks Have Returned is a seminal 1871 painting by Russian artist Aleksey Kondratyevich Savrasov. It is considered a landmark in Russian landscape art, marking a departure from academic and Romantic styles.1

Savrasov chose a simple, everyday scene: a village with a church, wooden buildings, bare birch trees, and rooks returning to build nests in the melting snow after winter. This painting is celebrated for revealing the spiritual beauty in ordinary landscapes and capturing the subtle tones of nature awakening. Savrasov was a founder of the Peredvizhniki ("Wanderers") group, which aimed to bring art to the people. Rooks are common Old World crows that nest in colonies.12

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