Isaac Levitan1860–1900Сумерки
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Intussen, in het leven van Isaac Levitan
Het hele levenMarch 1897
Chekhov the doctor: “Things look bad”
In early March 1897 Chekhov, having examined Levitan, writes in a letter that things look bad: his heart does not beat but blows. In the same days Levitan is in Moscow, meeting P. M. Tretyakov.
1898
The title of academician and teaching at his old school
He is awarded the title of academician of landscape painting and begins teaching at the very school where he studied; he dreams of creating a “House of Landscapes” — a large studio where all Russian landscape painters could work.
winter 1899
Yalta: doctors send him south
In winter 1899 doctors send Levitan to Yalta, where Chekhov is living; the old friends meet with a certain estrangement. Levitan walks leaning heavily on a stick, gasps for breath and speaks of his approaching death; Yalta does not help and he returns to Moscow.
8 – 17 May 1900
Chekhov visits the gravely ill Levitan
From 8 to 17 May 1900 Chekhov visits the gravely ill Levitan, who hardly leaves his house in Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane.
summer 1900
Paintings at the World Exhibition in Paris
All summer, from June 1900, Levitan's paintings are shown in the Russian section of the World Exhibition in Paris.
22 juli 1900
Died
