is the most beautiful canvas is the original canvas by the people's artist of the ussr nikolai vasilyevich ovechkind world, genius, where fyodor ivanovich himself is represented surrounded by people who directly or indirectly influenced his life you can see, of course, the closest friend of sergei vasilyevich rachmaninov, our artists. such as vrube. levitan korovin polenov in the background of the picture you can see lev nikolaevich tolstoy anton pavlovich chekhov, a close friend of alexei maksimovich gorky sorry a. why is chaliapin depicted as if it were a shadow, as if it were a spirit. unfortunately, the artist did not have time to finish the painting, because he died suddenly in 1993. a lot of people offered us a picture, by the way, to finish painting, especially the artist's students. well, everyone who took the brushes of the easel in his hands, then hesitantly walked away saying, and you know, it’s probably even better for him to decide to give up all these attempts, which turned out to be really better than chaliapin as the spirit is invisibly present here, because, really, it’s very cool.