And again Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the family seat of the Russian writer, Oryol countryman Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. ‘Having returned to Spasskoye, the Turgenev family began to live a village life, that noble, slow, spacious and shallow life, the very memory of which has almost been erased in the current generation - with the usual atmosphere of governors and teachers, Swiss and Germans, home-grown uncles and serf nannies’, - wrote Ivan Sergeevich in his autobiography.

Literary abode - such a lofty name invented Andrei Ilyich Kurnakov for his painting was.

Fall. In the foreground, behind a light metal fence, a large spreading tree with a high canopy extending into the sky. There are old dark crow’s nests on it. The trunk of the tree looks like the silhouette of a man with his arms outstretched in the wind. Sunny, the high blue sky - the background of the whole picture - is covered with pinkish-gray cumulus. The diamond-shaped pattern and trelliswork are clearly visible.

In the center, behind the trees, a manor house stretches horizontally - a long one-story wooden building with a mezzanine, a porch and windows decorated with white frames. The building is painted warm pink, and only the gable roof is turquoise. All colors are bright and joyful. A literary abode should leave a feeling of peace and tranquility.

Bright yellow and purple fallen leaves are on the ground with the remnants of greenish-yellow grass, in front of the fence. The foreground is painted out broadly and in volume. The trees in the background, right and left, are painted with a common ocher-brown mass, this is an old manor park. With small crimson-red strokes, the artist draws us a bright palette of autumn decoration. Autumn is always extraordinarily beautiful in Spasskoye - the gold of birches, the flame of maples, the restrained yellowness of elms.

Andrei Ilyich takes great pleasure in using his favorite technique - playing with shadows. They are on the road in the foreground - powerful dark purple. But especially bizarrely the plastic of shadows from trees, foliage, clouds play on the walls and roof of the house, the shadows are transparent purple, woven into the finest lace, making the house elegant and cheerful.

In the Art Gallery of A.I. Kurnakov, a branch of the Oryol Museum of Fine Arts, on the wall opposite the “Literary Abode” there is a painting “Group portrait of the Oryol writers”, and this is no coincidence. Here, in Spasskoye, not only Oryol writers come to bow to the great sources, but writers from all over the world - this is also their abode. To breathe in this clean, transparent air, to feel the magical atmosphere in which I.S. Turgenev worked and wrote his most poetic lines, where “the great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language” sounded.