This colourful landscape shows two women bathing in a stream. The figures have been painted with a sculptural sense of volume and Konchalovsky seems to be echoing the works of Renoir, Rodin and Maillol. Konchalovsky has painted a shimmering, fragmented sense of the light filtering through the trees and both the style and composition recalls the landscapes of Cezanne. Konchalovsky knew Cezanne's work well and his debt of artistic inspiration to the French artists of the late 19th century has been fully documented.

In 1929, the year before this landscape was painted, Konchalovsky had participated in an international exhibition at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, USA, and he was about exhibit his 7th Personal Exhibition at the Moscow State University. In the summer of 1930, Konchalovsky was working in Bakhchisarai in Central Crimea. A century before, Alexander Pushkin had similarly been inspired by this location and, between 1821-1823, he wrote his poem, The Fountain of Bakchisarai. It cannot be a coincidence that, in 1930, Konchalovsky also decided to begin work on a portrait of Pushkin. The landscape and beauty of Bakhchisarai was clearly intoxicating for all men of romantic vision and creativity.