surrounding landscapes begged for canvas, often the artists looked at the old masters, for example, boris kustodievthor of the most colorful merchant's wife at tea, copy diego velazquez than the spanish court painter of the 17th century, the master of light of shadows. so the riddle hooked him, his own from paris, he goes to madrid and works at prada and there are letters where he writes that he does not allow him to get very close, he was annoyed that the curators of the museums drive him away from the picture is impossible in detail, as he wanted in detail to consider, and the canvas was accompanied by kustodiev on his trip. a young wife and a newborn son bed, literally filled with radiance emanating from them, the russian masters did not have an internship plan, speaking in modern language. of course they went to the museum. but what's next is rather academic rather conservative art, which is just the same and does not satisfy. our russian pensioners of the academy of arts then they go to look for workshops in which something new is really going on, they pass on each other the addresses of obser