'Study from Life', c1903, (1965). Creator: Nikolaj Petrovic Bogdanov-Bel'skij.

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'Study from Life', c1903, (1965). A Russian schoolboy in ragged clothes sits writing at a desk. Painting, also known as 'The Essay', in the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]

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