Northern Idyll

1881–1923 · 活動地

Moscow

1887, 1892 and 1893

More trips to Paris

Korovin visits Paris again in 1887, 1892 and 1893; the painting of the French Impressionists makes a great impression on him.

1890s

Joins Mir iskusstva

In the 1890s Korovin becomes a member of the Mir iskusstva art group; he also exhibited with the Peredvizhniki.

1890s

An interest in Symbolism: Durnov and Balmont

After visiting Paris, Korovin becomes interested in Symbolism; back in Russia he attends lectures by the aesthete painter Modest Durnov and associates with the poet Konstantin Balmont. In these years he also paints The Muse.

1894

A northern journey with Serov

With his friend Valentin Serov, Korovin travels to the North — the Kola Peninsula, northern Norway and Swedish Lapland; the trip yields the landscapes Norwegian Port, St. Triphon’s Brook in Pechenga, Hammerfest: Aurora Borealis, The Coast at Murmansk and Arkhangelsk Port on the Dvina. Other accounts call it his second northern trip, coinciding with the construction of the Northern Railway.