The Feodor Chaliapin House on Novinsky Boulevard houses a number of works by Konstantin Alexeevich Korovin. The artist’s landscapes were highly appreciated by critics. Feodor Chaliapin said, “They are not ornaments for the walls of the dining room, but rather a splendid impression that fills me with joy.”

Chaliapin met Konstantin Korovin in Nizhny Novgorod. The actor and the artist were such close friends that even their summer cottages were located near each other: Korovin’s — in Okhotino and Chaliapin’s — in Ratukhino. The singer emigrated in 1922 and the painter — in 1923. Korovin settled in the same city as his friend — in Paris.

In 1929, the artist’s solo exhibition “Impressions of Paris” was held in Paris. His works were popular with both locals and emigrants, because the artist managed to combine in his style the artistic features of both France and Russia. After this exhibition the painter Ilya Repin wrote to Korovin,

Konstantin Korovin captured the streets of the French capital at different times of day. His love for the evening cityscape and its characteristic abundance of color and light contrasts and deep tones distinguishes Korovin’s work from the founders of Impressionism, the French artists. The 1929 landscape “Paris at Night”, painted in a sketchy manner in dark blue-green-gray tones, conveys the atmosphere of a mysterious city with the colorful lights of lanterns and brightly lit storefronts.

Konstantin Korovin could often be found late in the evening on Montmartre Hill, on the corner of a tiny street, where he would make himself comfortable with a specially invented lamp to illuminate his canvas to catch the emotions of the city.

Korovin began to draw Paris as a child, before he visited it. The artist recalled himself at the age of nine,