Cross procession / Khresna khoda

High horizon line. Multi-figure composition. Movement of people diagonally from the depth to the foreground. In the foreground on the right is a full-length figure of a young woman in a light pink scarf and a blouse of the same color, in a red sundress and a blue-gray apron. Head in profile on the left, figure in 3/4 on the left. Behind her, near the right edge of the canvas, a fair-haired boy in a gray-pink shirt, long black trousers, barefoot. In the center of the composition are two peasants walking with a beard in black army jackets. The man walking on the right carries banners on a pole, the second carries a lighted lantern on a pole. Behind them is a boy in a grayish-red shirt, gray-blue trousers tucked into boots. In the boy’s hands on a low pole is a gilded cross. On the right is a girl in a red scarf and two boys in bast shoes, holding icons in front of them. On the left, in front of the peasants walking with a banner and a lantern, an old gray-bearded peasant in a long black army coat and a peasant woman in a light gray skirt and a long jacket carrying a large icon covered with a gray-white cloth are walking. In the background, there is an unclear image of the people walking. Along the horizon line are low peasant buildings, in the center is a wooden hut with a gable roof, near which female figures are visible. On the right is a white church with a bell tower, with a green tent roof. On the left is a small ravine with blue water. The sky is light gray. Under the image on the left is the author’s signature in dark brown paint: “O. Sychkov 1902” (“О. Сычков 1902”). The stretcher is sliding with a cross. On the reverse side – at the top right of the canvas there is a dark oval stain measuring 15x12 cm. The canvas is generally dirty. There are small screes along the edges.