The painting “The Village of Akinshino” is one of the most heartfelt creations in the permanent museum exhibition. It sends out heat, warms with the last sun’s rays of an autumn day, delights with variety of colors of artistic performance. The picture is like a window overlooking the other life, the highly spiritual life, the life of vanishing Ancient Rus with its cozy villages. 

 Autumn time painted in the picture was one of the artist’s favorite seasons. The author said that he liked calmness in nature, the feeling of grace of God best of all. In particular, he enjoyed that in autumn.

The artist painted the village of Akinshino in the rays of the setting sun. The village is situated on the left side of the river Tara in several kilometers from Mstyora. It is located on the slope of the hill. There is the cathedral of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God on the top of the hill. There are houses and structures on the slope of the hill from the bank of the river Tara to the top of the hill. Due to such location of the village V. Ya.Yukin created a stepped cascade composition of the painting.

The building of the cathedral was handed over to a collective farm and then it was converted into a granary and a warehouse. When the artist worked at his painting in the 1980s all the structures were half abandoned. So, it is possible to imagine what impression the cathedral, old wooden houses with carved window trims that were located on the slope of the hill produced on the artist.

Vladimir Yakovlevich grew fond of the village of Akinshino when he lived in Mstyora, when along with the artist K.N. Britov worked en plein air, explored surrounding countryside.

These words describe Vladimir Yakovlevich Yukin’s picture “The Village of Akinshino” to the best advantage and reveal the fact that it was color richness that enchanted the painter in nature most of all.