In the summer of 1892, thirty-one-year-old Isaac Levitan came to the state of Teweiersik which was not far from Moscow and lived in the manor for sketching and painting. Here, for the first time he heard the touching story.

Once upon a time there was the daughter of Miller fell in love with a handsome boy who fed the horses. However, the girl’s stern grandfather knew it and got extremely angry. To break up the couple, he tried to bribe the draft board to take the boy to be a soldier. The old Russian military service was lifelong tenure. After hearing this news, the girl got desperate and came to a deep pool in the wild forest and jumped into the whirlpool through the wooded built bridge.

The story made the Isaac Levitan shocked and resonates. In the evening, he looked from the balcony of the house to the distance through the twilight and seemed to see the deep whirlpool surrounded by the dark wood. The lake appeared the crystalline waves and reflecting the clouds in the sky. The last glow incarnating the cloud top and the dark forest made people not see its danger and bottomless. A few thick skinned raw wood were placed in the lake to constitute a sincere bridge, seeming to summon you to cross the bridge to the other side. Across the bridge, the running weeds and dense forest shrubs stood quietly and silently green, like a fence isolating the external contact with the world, resulting in a secluded little world. It’s hard to imagine such a quiet place full of poetry was a devouring dream. But in this quiet atmosphere, a trace of melancholy clearly existed: because the lake contained the lover’s tears? Or because the water and the lake still dipped in the girl’s final sad song? The painter decided to draw the scene to express his grief and make the painting permeate lovers’ sorrow, the girl’s deep feeling and the natural quiet sense. In this way, a painting which moved tens of thousands of people was born, this was Levitan masterpiece By The Whirlpool.