The favourite picture

I prefer to choose exactly this painting,because I like it very much.First of all,I want to speak about painter.He's name is Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi.Arkhip Kuindzhi was born in January 1841 in Mariupol (present-day Ukraine), but he spent his youth in the city of Taganrog. He grew up in a poor family, and his father was a Greek shoemaker Ivan Khristoforovich Kuindzhi (sometimes spelt Emendzhi). Arkhip was six years old when he lost his parents, so that he was forced to make his living, working at the church building site, grazing domestic animals, and working at the corn merchant's shop. During the five years, from 1860 to 1865, Arkhip Kuindzhi worked as retoucher in the photo studio of Isakovich in Taganrog. Kuindzhi tried to open his own photographer's studio, but without success. After that Kuindzhi left Taganrog for Saint PetersburgHe studied painting mainly independently and in St.Petersburg Academy of arts (from 1868; the full member since 1893). He was co-partner of mobile art exhibitions (Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist artists who in protest to academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative, which evolved into the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki in 1870. During this early period Kuinczhy felt Ivan Aivazovsky's influence.
Among his popular work are:Lake Ladoga (1873),The birch grove (1879),
Dnepr in the morning 1881,
Night on the Dnepr(1882)-it is my favourite one,Surf and Clouds, 1882,
Elbrus, 1890–1895,
Evening in the Ukraine (1878–1901),
Moonspots in the Forest, Winter 1898–1908.
So now, want to speak about my favourite picture- Night on the Dnepr(1882) .The painter use a dark colours to show us ordinary night on the river Dnepr.He pa int the deep of the night,when lonely beatiful moon lighted up the river.I think,it gives some mystery to this picture and because of it,this picture is attractive to me.