Ivan Vladimirov painted this canvas in 1910, which was the year that Arkhip Kuinji died. This scene was repeated day in and day out for many years, giving journalists and caricaturists occasion to poke fun at the great master of Russian landscape painting. In 1900, for example, Pavel Scherbov drew a famous cartoon depicting Kuinji administering clysters to birds and bandaging their wounds. Every ...