Vasily Vereshchagin. (№ 322406)

If not pneumonia, working in the air, there will be happiness. Winter glory. Only the Germans to starve, not the etudes to write. It is important would Prusakov withdraw such cold weather.

Quote Explanation: 2 Feb 1888 Vereshchagin wrote from Rostov one of its main buyers - entrepreneur and philanthropist Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, founder of the famous Tretyakov gallery... "Cockroach" in Russia are traditionally called red cockroaches.