Portrait of landowner A P Warfolomev

About the portrait wrote Kustodiev in December 14, 1902, the same year it was painted, to his fiancée: "It's the most interesting of all the portraits that I've done so far." About the model he wrote to her already in December 9: "It is a type that you meet very rarely - this mixture of kulak mentality and phenomenal greed - with liberal ideas and stupidity and a peasant cunning. Not for anything in the world could I believe it was a nobleman, and also an educated person ... What a mass."
The revealing depiction of a Russian landowner was awarded a Grand Prix medal at a major exhibition in Munich 1903.