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# God Is Light
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/bog-est-svet/
- Published: 2025-04-20T06:02:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:30:29.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Faith, Art, People

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, a painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi.

This is the most enigmatic of Kuindzhi's works, which he showed, together with a few others, after 20 years of silence. And those who saw it were his 4 pupils. The second time, Kuindzhi showed the picture to Dmitry Mendeleev and his wife, and to the writer Hieronymus Yasinsky, who, under its impression, wrote:

> «...we saw a dark, thickly leaved garden of cedar and olive trees on the Mount of Olives, with a bright, dark-blue clearing in the middle, across which the Saviour of the world was walking, bathed in dark moonlight. This is not a moonlight effect, this is moonlight in all its unutterable power, golden-silver, soft, merging with the green of the trees and grass and pervading the white fabric of the garments. A kind of dazzling, incomprehensible vision...»