Alenushka, sad girl at a pond - one of the favorite all the paintings Vasnetsov. The artist successfully uses fantastic story to reveal the complex and ambiguous harakter.Grust Russian girls are very mature. The sadness in her eyes, on the border of despair. Untidy red hair, dark eyes, pale-red lips - easy to read form the image of a child with a difficult life. In Alyonushka absolutely nothing fabulous, fantastic. Actually, the whole fantastic story emphasized only one detail - a group of swallows sitting on the head of the heroine. This symbol (as we know, swallows symbolize hope), the artist balances a full melancholy image of the heroine, gives hope for a happy ending of the old Russian skazki.Vasnetsov filled landscape background atmosphere of silence and sadness. Excellent failed artist water surface of the pond, the reeds, sedge, spruce. All motionless, quiet, calm. Even pond reflects the character is very delicate, slightly. A little tremble young aspen. As soon as the autumn sky frowns. Brown and green tones of the landscape contrasts with a blush on the face of the heroine, and the sadness of autumn - with bright colors on the skirt Alyonushka. The viewer feels a moment and the tale continues ...