The painting depicts the study of nikolai petrovich milyukov in his ostrovki estate in the vyshnevolotsky district of the tver province. The study is furnished in accordance with the taste of its owner, a fairly educated person who loved comfort. Long, damask-covered sofas, the work of serf craftsmen, create an atmosphere of coziness. The interior is decorated with objects fashionable in the years of late romanticism: a catholic crucifix, a statuette of napoleon, a human skull, and a "gothic" inkwell. The number 1844, the year the painting was completed, is set aside on the office accounts. The boy sitting on the sofa, immersed in reading, is the landowner's nine-year-old son, konon milyukov. He owned an album of portrait sketches of the milyukov peasants, made by soroka in 1842. On the wall of the study hangs soroka's painting "the outbuilding in ostrovki", now in the russian museum. Object Type: painting. Date: 1844. Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Russian Museum. Room in the house on Ostrovki by G.Soroka (1844, Russian museum)
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