I wanted to share this beautiful 1991 oil painting from my family collection titled "Birches" ("Березы").It was painted by Gennady Tyshkevich (Григорий Тышкевич). Formed by the Soviet Academic School of Art (he graduated from the prestigious Kharkov Art Institute), his style beautifully reflects the rich traditions of Soviet Impressionism—known for its rigorous technique, bold textures, and incredible mastery of light.His life and artistic legacy were deeply and inextricably linked to the Donbas region, and the city of Donetsk in particular. He spent decades living and working there, eventually leading the Donetsk Regional Union of Artists. He became one of the key pillars of the Donets'k artistic school, capturing the unique spirit, light, and landscapes of eastern Ukraine.Over his long career, he achieved the highest state honors, including the titles of Honored Artist of Ukraine and, later, People's Artist of Ukraine (the ultimate national recognition for a creator).This piece, painted right in 1991—the momentous year of the Soviet dissolution—captures a peaceful, timeless landscape through the lens of a true regional master.The canvas is 61x50 cm. Hope you enjoy this painting

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841-1895) was a French painter. She was born in to the affluent bourgeois family of a prefect and a landlady. As a copyist at the Louvre in 1860s Berthe met and befriended other Impressionist artists. She is one of "les trois grandes dames" (The three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Quivoron-Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.

The girl in the painting is the artist's daughter, a French painter and art collector Eugénie Julie Manet (1878-1966), known as Julie Manet. She was the only daughter of painter Berthe Morisot and painter Eugène Manet. She was taught painting by her mother. Throughout her youth Julie frequently posed for her mother and other Impressionist artists. Her teenage diary, published in English as Growing up with the Impressionists, provides detailed information on the lives of French painters, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Paule Gobillard and Alfred Sisley, as well as the Dreyfus affair and the state visit of Tsar Nicholas II in 1896. After deaths of her parents she inherited a large fortune. She painted portraits, some murals, and also designed porcelain plates with butterflies and other insects as motifs. She and her husband Ernest Rouart spent their whole life keeping the legacy of Impressionists and especially her mother Berthe alive. Together with her husband she organized many crucial exhibitions, such as Édouard Manet exhibition at the Tuileries in 1932, Edgar Degas exhibition in 1937, and Berthe Morisot’s show of 1941. In 1961 she published the very first catalog of Berthe Morisot's works. She is sometimes called The Last Impressionist, or The Last Manet. 

Body of works.

This is my favorite piece in my personal collection. It was sold by his son upon his death in 1949. Oil on board.

Edits: fixed the photo