Gennady Pasko’s landscape “Evening on Lake Pleshcheyevo” from the collection of the Volzhsky Art Gallery is a summer view of a monastery from the lake.
Brick buildings are depicted behind a fence, and the monastery is almost hidden in the greenery of trees. Two-thirds of the painting is occupied by the sky with clouds. The calm surface of the lake seems to separate the viewer from the monastery. The rays of the setting sun cast a glow over the canvas, uniting the water, sky, and earth.
Gennady Pasko called the cityscape his favorite genre of painting. He loved to create landscapes of historic Russian cities, among which Pereslavl-Zalessky occupied a special place.
The city of Pereslavl-Zalessky was founded in 1152 by Prince Yury Dolgoruky on Lake Pleshcheyevo and should have become the capital of Northeastern Rus. After Dolgoruky’s death, the active development of Pereslavl-Zalessky stopped, but the city remained one of the important domains. Today it is included in the Golden Ring of Russia and is the center of the Pleshcheyevo Ozero (Lake) National Park.
Pasko often visited Pereslavl-Zalessky and Lake Pleshcheyevo, made sketches, and created paintings.
Brick buildings are depicted behind a fence, and the monastery is almost hidden in the greenery of trees. Two-thirds of the painting is occupied by the sky with clouds. The calm surface of the lake seems to separate the viewer from the monastery. The rays of the setting sun cast a glow over the canvas, uniting the water, sky, and earth.
Gennady Pasko called the cityscape his favorite genre of painting. He loved to create landscapes of historic Russian cities, among which Pereslavl-Zalessky occupied a special place.
The city of Pereslavl-Zalessky was founded in 1152 by Prince Yury Dolgoruky on Lake Pleshcheyevo and should have become the capital of Northeastern Rus. After Dolgoruky’s death, the active development of Pereslavl-Zalessky stopped, but the city remained one of the important domains. Today it is included in the Golden Ring of Russia and is the center of the Pleshcheyevo Ozero (Lake) National Park.
Pasko often visited Pereslavl-Zalessky and Lake Pleshcheyevo, made sketches, and created paintings.
