1891

Winter: works from nature in Meri-Hovi. Paints the pictures Rain in an Oak Forest and In the Wilds of the North. Summer: resides in Peterhof (a suburb of St. Petersburg, now Petrodvorets), begins the landscape Countess Mordvinova 's Forest. Peterhof. November 26: Shishkin's one-man show marking forty years of his creative work opens in the halls of the Academy of Arts. The most interesting comments on the exhibition were made by landscape painter and art critic Alexander Kiseliov in the article "The Exhibition of I. I. Shishkin's Studies", published in the December issue of the magazine Khudoznik (The Artist). Finishes the picture Pines on the Seashore.