Tell me who the author
 

tell me who the author of the picture

charcoal, gouache

1921

signature looks like - YOU

A.M.Vasnetsov?
 

it can be Appolinary Vasnetsov?

it can be COOKING ...

I think that the inscription means you appeal to sitters (I give you your portrait ...)

but who gives - is unclear.
I do not exactly Vasnetsov

and it can be read as BAK (BAK)?
Well, let's say: Bakalovich Stepan Vladimirovich ...

Do not invent.
Read precisely "YOU."

take a closer look at the signature and understand that the letter "M" is not here.
This tail, which introduces you to zbluzhdenie - just a continuation pattern (continuation of "gear" strips dating back to the top).
The last letter, "a" or "n" or "n" ...

I "tails" do not enter into error.
That is what you call a tail spelled thin line parallel to, and read "M".

Take a closer look.

 
Yes, it would be good and it was <! - ~ 1 ~ ->

And there are signatures of Apollinaris Mikhailovich Vasnetsov?

Well , that's what they do in the art of people without imagination ? "M " and a point ... <! - ~ 1 ~ ->
Let us then focus on the compromise, let there be no " YOU " and not " WAC ", but - " Vale "? <! - ~ 1 ~ ->

Matviyenko, or what?
Who gave it?
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So it's obvious - the one who loved ...

Eltsin?
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Matvienko under Yeltsin was ambassador to Greece - no call, no one does, and it is now the fourth person in the state.

Do not argue, do not argue ...
Just as we are talking about a young woman (ie the start of a career), but not about my grandmother ...
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And the ambassador was , and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister are all under Yeltsin.
And now her chair - the third in order of size , after Medvedev and before Naryshkin.

 But in his study - three letters to you - clearly shows , it is not " Vale " , so do not Matvieke <! - ~ 1 ~ ->
And so - a good portrait And suddenly , Vasnetsov work ? <! - ~ 1 ~ ->