“Winter Landscape. Sunset” depicts a farmstead amid the forest against the backdrop of a blue sky. A sled track leads to the open gates. The painting was created by the artist Sergey Dobrilovsky. It was brought to Kochetovskaya and is now displayed in the living room of the memorial house-museum.

Vitaly Aleksandrovich Zakrutkin bought this painting by Sergey Dobrilovsky in Rostov-on-Don after the war. He dreamed of restoring his personal library which had been lost during the occupation. Before leaving for the frontline, Vitaly Zakrutkin published a book titled “The Brown Plague”, where he spoke in detail about the birth of fascism and Hitler’s plans to eliminate many peoples.

The Germans captured Rostov-on-Don in November 1941 and found a stack of books by Vitaly Zakrutkin in the printing house. They put the writer on the wanted list. Vitaly Zakrutkin was already at the front, and his family had been evacuated to Pyatigorsk where there were no battles yet. Their house was looted, and the library was destroyed. When the writer returned home after the war, his first project was the restoration of his library. Zakrutkin visited second-hand bookstores and markets. Gradually, he gathered his new library collection.

One day, among a multitude of various objects, Vitaly Zakrutkin saw a large painting that reminded him of the years his family had spent in the Russian Far East, in the village of Zavitaya in the Amur Region. It had the same birch groves, turning into mixed, and then into coniferous forests. In the Far East, the writer loved to collect cedar cones, mushrooms, berries, Chinese magnolia vine, and ginseng.

Nowadays, the painting “Winter Landscape. Sunset” by Sergey Dobrilovsky is kept in the living room of the writer’s memorial house-museum. It reminds visitors of the work, study, travel, theatrical activity, family friendship, and love of the Zakrutkins in the Far East.