Kim Smirnov: I look at Savrasov. From a personal diary.
Either by virtue of some mystical connection of the times, which is between the transitional spring and autumn states of the nature of the middle lane, or for what reason, but in the really depressive time at the end of November, I was contrasted in the Tretyakov Gallery, to the roots of the fitting, to the first source, by spring ... October 8, 2012 Monday. How much in common and personal came together in these neighboring dates - October 7 and 8!