“A field resembling a vast carpet of silk with dark and light green patches; a road winds humorously through the meadow and disappears somewhere in the folds of the earth. < … > A blue-tinged forest looms on the horizon. Come close and it will mysteriously whisper an old old legend or a threnody in your ear and begin its sorrowful rustling,” (from the diaries of M. K. Čiurlionis).

“Raigardas” is the artist's only fully complete landscape painted from nature. It is an unbroken bird's-eye panorama of the legendary Raigardas Valley in the Druskininkai region, a place much loved by Čiurlionis. “As legend has it, this was where the great city of Raigardas sank into the quagmire with its fantastical towers, bells ringing during Easter Vigil, white marble walls and golden roofs. It is the souls of this miserable sunken city that wander through the marshes and glow like stars at midnight in the mire. It is here that the resentful souls of the city appear at night on the road, frighten passing travellers and play spiteful jokes on them. It is here that a piercing scream can be heard on a quiet night: 'Help! Help! I'm drowning!' <...> It is here that wonderful music can be heard in the moonlight, seemingly rising from the ground, so sorrowful and comforting at the same time, echoing with the sounds of unheard-of instruments,” (Čiurlionytė, J. Atsiminimai apie M.K. Čiurlionį. Vilnius: Vaga, 1973, 77).

From 2024-02-24 until 2024-06-08 this triptych is exhibited in Museum Belvédère in Heerenveen, Netherlands.