The picture" At monastic gate" was born in the open air in which I took part in. A cover in Sacred and Vvedensky the island desert. I wrote the etude on a sunset. Warm light lit old gate, the nun has sat down on a shop with small basket of just collected currant, long lilac shadows have laid down obliquely. Century lindens protect rest of this fertile place… The picture has been acquired in fund of the monastery.