Kim Britov’s study is an autumn landscape of the ancient settlement of Mstyora. It is one of the largest centers of traditional art crafts in Russia: lacquer miniature, embroidery, artistic metal processing.

The history of the settlement is connected with the names of Vladimir Painting School representatives. Vladimir Yakovlevich Yukin and Nikolai Nikolaievich Modorov were born there, they spent all their juvenile years in it. The artists are related to each other and to somerestorers, icon painters and painters. 

Kim Nikolaievich Britov, Nikolai Nikolaievich Modorov, Valeriy Sergeevich Egorov studied at Mstyora art vocational school over the years. In the late nineteen-forties on this land Yukin and Britov, two founders of Vladimir Painting School saw eye to eye on the art.

All the artists of Vladimir Painting School painted in Mstyora outdoors, admiring autumn and spring colors, river floods and ancient architecture.

Kim Britov went to Mstyora to work en plein air in different periods of his creative life. Vladimir Alexandrovich Desyatnikov, a fine art expert, an honorary member of Russian Academy of Arts wrote that the artist’s recollections about youth are closely connected with Mstyora.

It is possible to study the smallest image of the horse near the haystack against the background of the most recognizable view of Holy Epiphany (Bogoyavlensky) Monastery, the landmark of the 17^th century.

Britov highlighted the church with vibrant shades of yellow and ocher that contrasted with deep blue color of water and light blue color of the sky. Pure colors gave the opportunity to convey the author’s admiration for the transparency of the air, the freshness of the first snow, light frost of the transitional autumn season.