Abutkov depicts the view across the River Neva onto the Admiralty and Palace Bridge. A combination of landscape and genre painting, the work conveys the mood of a grey day in winter.

Abutkov Nikolai

Abutkov, Nikolai Grigorievich (1833–1859)
Painter. Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Contributed to exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1858–1859). Awarded a minor silver medal for perspective painting for "Winter. St. Petersburg View(1859)".