Katiusha question

[Alina Israeli]

>I guess for me Isakovsky's whole self-presentation is that of someone with
>deep
>roots in Russian village life, that it seems unlikely that he thought of
>himself
>as Jewish, whatever his parents marriage documents may have said.

You may be right. But the most Russian of all Russian painters, Levitan,
comes to mind:
http://images.google.com/images?q=%CB%E5%E2%E8%F2%E0%ED&ie=windows-1251&hl=ru

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