Mist hangs among tall pines as a mother bear and three cubs play on a snapped, fallen trunk. Ivan Shishkin painted the forest, and his friend Konstantin Savitsky added the bears. Pavel Tretyakov, who bought the picture, had Savitsky's signature removed, so it is usually credited to Shishkin alone. A sweet wrapper later made it one of the best-known images in Russia.
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Look past the bears into the fog: the distant trunks fade from dark to pale as morning light filters through the forest.
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