The artist is Fedotov
According to the writer Druzhinin, a friend of the artist, Fedotov portrayed them themselves, walking along the 20th line of the Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg. The artist for the first time undertakes an independent landscape task and outlines the way to the image of the city that masters of the 1860s will create, depicting the city gloomy, unacceptable, alienating man. In the Fedot landscape, this content is still scheduled.
