When analyzing Victor Nikolaievich Titov’s works one can’t help noticing that the landscape is the main theme in the artist’s creativity. That unites the author with Vladimir painting school representatives.

There are architectural townscapes and country scenes of Gorokhovets, Suzdal, Zagorsk, Kasimov, Bogolyubovo, Vyatkino, Goritsy, Kadyevo, Potanino, Ulybyshevo in the master’s artistic heritage. Victor Nikolaievich Titov and Valery Grigorievich Kokurin went to the Caucasus and the Central Asia. Victor Nikolaievich painted remarkable landscapes of those places. His plein-air sketches astound with the set of colors harmony, conveying mood and art of execution.

Most of the sketches despite their small size can be considered completed works. “Erofeevskiy descent” is not a very big picture but it is considered to be a completed work too. The view of Vladimir from Troitskiy bank is shown in the painting. 

The locals recognize the building of the Red Cross, the dwelling houses that were situated in Mira (peace) street and in Gorky street in the picture. That part of the city was developed actively in Soviet times. For example, Gorky street which was a small quiet trading quarter changed into an administrative, educational and cultural center for some decades. In 1958 the USSR post issued two postage stamps devoted to a 850th anniversary of Vladimir: there were the Golden gates in one of them, Gorky street was depicted in the other.

Victor Titov chose typical for Vladimir painting school foreshortening of view and a way of background rendering. He seems to look at the landscape from the top, though in reality he could not see it in that way. He united depicted objects in cascades to paint landscape peculiarities of that part of the city.

The painting “Erofeevskiy descent” reveals Victor Titov’ nature of works of the early to mid-1970s. They were full of optimism and enthusiastic perception of life. Vladimir Yakovlevich Yukin noticed in his summary report about work of the regional branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR that those characteristics were main features of Vladimir landscape.