petersburg, after which the famous master konstantin makovsky received the title professor at the academy. this is a painting from the end of the 19th century. folk festivities during maslenitsa on admiralteyskaya square are restoring a complex multi-figured composition using both the latest technologies and the good old methods that have been tested for centuries. well, for example, they use red-hot irons or afiodos, i looked at how it works. slowly, brushstroke after brushstroke, the restorers remove the old varnish, the paints change, they freshen up, and from the side it seems that this is a completely different picture, a completely different konstantin makovsky the one we are used to seeing in the permanent collection of the russian museum, experts will explain that it does not seem, really. this is how painting works, minor changes, the shade of paint changes the perception of space. this one is yellow. varnish. it brings the plan very close, because the yellow makes the distant plan close or medium. and we very much expect that after our work , after this thinning of the varnish,