The State Tretyakov Gallery
The landscape "Spring" is painted in the traditions of "The Union of Russian Artists": in the foreground a road is shown that leads a viewer in depth of the picture. It runs along a village street, rounds it and leads to a church. But the artist does not merely show the image of a Russian village, he wants to convey a certain state of a man at the time of the first meeting with a spring after a long winter. Houses are highlighted by rays of the evening sun, there are visible thawed patches on the road, as if everything here announces the arrival of long-awaited warmth.
A wide emotional manner of fulfillment confirms words of Nikolay Gagman, the first researcher of Nikolay Mescherin’s art, the artist had become interested in the technique of impressionism even before he met Igor Grabar. Therefore, this work can be called one of the first impressionistic paintings in Nikolay Mescherin’ biography.