artists, and this is primarily the leonozov group, this is the circle of writers, poets, philosophers, hollinns, 1947, that is, he is still very young, he is very young, this is the summer of forty-seven, when he is preparing to enter the institute, we have a whole hall dedicated to this period, here you can already see his first such tests regarding chromatic layouts - colors in principle, this is a thing of the same period, this is also, this is also a still life, which served to submit, so to speak, your portfolio to surikovsky, so he stayed there was no such word, well, not a portfolio, yes, series of works, okay, and this one it is staged, the production refers to a still life, yes, it, of course, echoes the tradition of the moscow school of painting, which is rooted in the bobnovoletsk tradition, in essence, here we see a lesson. now the work is in the collection of the famous moscow physician mark arkadevich kurtser, he personally knew anna blinova, she treasured this portrait very much and she left a very interesting memory of how she posed, so she told me that it was necessary to com