surprise you with unusual portraits, let's start from a remarkable, in my opinion, work by pyotr konchilovskylovsky. we see here pushkin at the moment of creative inspiration, and he is covered with this blanket, a little like a tiger skin, and yes, it would seem so. but it was conceived from the very beginning, but however, in our funds there is also a photograph, a photograph of the first version of this painting, in this photograph pushkin is depicted. the way the artist decided to show him, the way he really was, most likely yes, because this pose, with his legs bent under him, he sits on sofa and the moment of creative inspiration, which the artist showed so well here, it , of course, attracts attention to his appearance, to the face of the poet, to the very pen that pushkin holds, it is known that pushkin was very fond of gnawing the feathers with which he wrote. they are all gnawed off and, so to speak, look like very small feathers, the legs, the naked legs really did not please those people in the commission, yes, who looked at this picture, because we must remember that this is the