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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 558028, member: 5833&quot;]OP has found what appears to be the same painting in a photo on a site that lets people collect pictures into a gallery.&nbsp; This gallery was made by someone named Andrei/Andrey Schetnikov.&nbsp; Unless this is a different one, he&#039;s a recognized poet.&nbsp; The theme of the gallery is Ekaterinaberg, so presumably he saw the painting there.&nbsp; However, if there&#039;s any info identifying the sitter or painter, I couldn&#039;t catch it.&nbsp; There&#039;s an icon that gives some more words when you mouse over it, but it does not stay on the screen when you move the mouse away.&nbsp; Since I am dependent on IM Translator for Russian, I couldn&#039;t read it or get it translated.&nbsp; This is what I&#039;m asking SSlava to do.&nbsp; If the painting is in Ekaterinaberg, the one we are looking at is a copy.&nbsp; It is/was not uncommon for developing painters to improve their skills by faithfully copying the work of masters.&nbsp; If this is not an original, it may not matter so much who painted it.</p><p><br /></p><p>French was used by upper crust Russians.&nbsp; [USER=4587]@SSlava[/USER] does the surname make any sense if you look at it as being written in Cyrillic?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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