
View at the Zaghezal Estate near Riga (also known as Peasant Manor by the River, Animal Farm on the River Bank, and View on the Island of Valaam) is an 1858 painting by the Russian artist Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt.
Mikhail Klodt presented the painting at graduation from the Imperial Academy of Arts and was awarded a large gold medal for it and the right to travel to Europe at public expense for a period of three years. According to a number of art historians, the creation of the picture was the impetus for the emergence of the Peredvizhniki movement in Russian painting.
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