Vassiliy Petrovich Kossenkov takes his place among other renowned Soviet landscape painters such as Efrem I. Zverkov, Nikolai Efimovich Timkov, Vladimir Y. Yukin, and Vladimir Fedorovich Tokarev.  These masters are brought together by openness, simplicity and delicacy.  The emotional intensity of their paintings is rooted in their tender allegiance to their native land. Kossenkov was…