Excelllent work, is a masterpiece!

Fantastic creation with a beautiful atmosphere !

Interesting.

Amazing trompe d' oeil! An entrance to a parallel world. So well seen, Nikolay! I should love to have attended your exhibition . Maybe you will give us a glimpse of it.

I noticed after my comment which genre this is in, so I now say brilliantly done!

xlt postwork, like the mood and the sepia colour palette

Fantastic manipulation. Inside out and outside in. Brilliant :-) OH yes, I would so love to get a little peek into your exhibition too :)

Amazing work!! x

Amazing work my friend. God bless.

Fantastic composition and postwork!

It looks like it could be a time portal into the past. Very creative & appealing work...

Wonderful work!

Marvelous picture... Outstandingly done !

All of the best exhibitions (the best ones that I miss) all seem to be somewhere in Russia, but that's not really surprising either. Anyway...this is a brilliant piece of work! I love the way in which it straddles worlds: on a level it feels as if I could walk rather easily into the canvas, or wait for someone interesting to walk out. The way in which this image frames itself is brilliant. I love the additional manipulations you did: I imagine you working art like bakers work bread dough before baking it: that's such a profound and personal process, and a the most interesting emotional and spiritual things happen in that sort of "work." It shows here and it's wholly engaging.

Such an interesting visit to this exhibition ... I feel that I have arrived by train (check the two railway lines, left) and walk into this lowly-lit cave of mystery and surprises, ghostly veils of the past and then I discover details of another world; with boudoir style furniture, photos, pictures, paintings - lingering memories everywhere ... and then it's lime to leave and catch the train back home again, the clock on the wall tells me so ... a wonderful trip, back in time and time well spent, thank you Nikolais. BB

With Andrea, brilliantly done, because it's another photo manipulation that has elements of photography, prints, digital painting, and dreams. One senses that that big white 'frame' is the canvas back. Or it could be a door. But what's so compelling is that there's apparently a mirror in front of it, facing the area "behind" us---where there seems to be this whole other room, so complex and filled with pieces of an entire life; and where that other room is reflected in the mirror. A bit if Magritte, even some Escher in that. Yet you have stands of light or mist moving in and out of the mirror, so that the room is interacting with the mirror. (The strands are those white "energy lines". What a terrific intuitive detail!) The room in the 'mirror' has such fascinating detail---it's small, miniature in fact, but it draws us in as into a complete inner life. As do the arches inside (there are two that I see). And all those things on the wall. And I love the old frames or canvases on the right side of your image, and the old torn-up floor on the left. It's like a big studio, vacated, and left with "leftovers"---ie, the stuff one sees in galleries after hours and between shows. Stunning work, with an air of real truth---hard to explain it, but it feels truthful. I wrote a piece, some years back, about a huge museum---larger than a city---that was abandoned for centuries, long before museums ever existed, which had rooms within rooms, and where the paintings moved, their subjects came out of the canvases and mingled, the frames undulated and crawled along the walls, and paint strokes wiggled their way to freedom through the windows atop the galleries. This brings that to mind, only yours is in a wholly visual medium, and it's so meticulously done. (My piece never got finished.) Brilliant. And the few hues make it even more compelling. Terrific piece of art.