Agree, like the characters. I am not involved in this picture, and therefore interested in its value.

It is necessary to make a chemical analysis. I bought something similar. Shone, dug:). The work was later than I wanted, but old enough to avoid the Arbat:)

SergeiSK,
If a canvas covered with spots of oil so it can still be art? "What if the X-ray done?
Tree canvas pasted or glued on this canvas?

Similar Valais, famous personalities in Ukrainian history.

And a few more portraits of Hetman Mazepa

A strange why the tree from the back cover with a canvas? A типаж not Ukrainian. Rather, the Bashkir-Mordvinians-chuvash.Povolzhe.Dlya Ukrainian too small facial features and simple-dressed-poky bonnet, rabbit sheepskin coat, shirt without embroidery and red tsveta.V Ukraine Reds wore only trousers - Cossacks agreed, after Pereyaslavl be near Moscow.

So Pugachev in Grinevskaja granted by sheepskin rabbit.
Here Savyelitch something all his remembered distressed ... : D
  - God grant you a hundred years of health for the fact that my old man looks down and reassured. Age of you will pray to God, but the rabbit coat and I will not mention too. (c)

Thank you for your opinion. He was always confident that in Ukraine people lived exclusively with large features, to live a rich and walked only in expensive clothes. And arheotip was different from other Slavic peoples.

I am not the linguist, art historian to correct, but all the same "rabbit".

SergeiSK, but it's all in the "rabbit" whether, in the "rabbit" Do-late "Mazepa" seek, celebrate in Poltava has come ... :)
Previously, it was necessary to open a "sensational find". : D

SergeiSK, http://pereyslav.at.ua/publ/1-1-0-136 here is a link to a book about the Cossacks. Unfortunately, few reproductions nete lined, but there, as far as I know, raised an incredible amount of information. She found the link only in the Ukrainian language, can you better luck.