Portrait of Vasily Matveevich Vashchila

Shoulder-length portrait of an energetic elderly man with a raised head, wide eyebrows, a raised sight of small eyes, a high forehead with lush locks of hair above him, a large nose, a short beard and a magnificent long mustache. Vasily Matveevich Vashchila was a voit of Selishche village, he was a leader of the antifeudal peasant uprising at the Krichevsky elder in 1743-1744.