"Northern Village. Chatterboxes" by Garri Frents (1970s)

Yuri Molokanov. Illustration from Yelena Blaginina's "We'll Ask Autumn" (1969).

"Abandoned Village" by Nikolai Solomin (1989)

Photo by A. Chepela (Vetluga, Russia, 1994)

"Evening in Kolkhoz (Tea on the Terrace)" by Aleksandr Deyneka (1949)

"High Noon" by Vladimir Kutilin (1963)

"Lilacs are Blooming" by Konstantin Morozov (1960s)

"Lilacs Are Blooming" by Georgiy Sysolyatin (1964)

"A Warm Day in May" by Nikolai Sysoyev (1984)

"Spring Rain. The Beginning of May" by Eduard Vyrzhikovsky (1958)

K. Bezborodov. Illustration for Ivan Surikov's poem, "Winter" (1977).

Pyotr Bagin. Illustration for Yuri Koval's "The Birch Pie" (1989).

"The Postman" by Anatoly Kokorin (1962)

"Winter in Kandry" by Ural Mukhametshin (1985)

"Around the Village" by Anton Kashshai (1973)

"A Northern Village" by Garri Frents (USSR, 1973)

Photo by Yevgeny Likhosherst (1980s)