Is it worth restoring?
 

They brought just such a copy of the famous kartiny.53h70.

Of course, it is theirs, but I would not.

Female compared with the original aged 10 years.

In Soviet times, this copy was part of the interior of each third decent home, what type of service as the "Madonna ":)

. Who assumes? Whose kept woman? Richly dressed.
Researchers of I. Archaeology have different versions of the Unknown.
for portrait likeness:
- Bestuzhev Matryona Savvishna.
- Wife of artist N. Yaroshenko, Maria Pavlovna.
- Niece (brother's daughter) Ivan Archaeology ..
I. Finally - Catherine Dolgorukova-last love of Alexander II,
 who supposedly ordered the portrait, but was soon killed. Dolgorouky children sent abroad
 And Kramskoy only after 3 years decided to put work. calling it the "Unknown".
   But that lyric.
 Here, because the issue of copies.
We ought to see how managed to copy the original master :confused:

It is not.
The work is dated 1883 m year.
(Bottom right caption: , St. Petersburg. Kramskoy 83)
And for the first time the work was exhibited at the 11th TPHV 1883-1884 under number 7 in St. Petersburg and № 19 in Moscow.
And so on a personal exhibition of the artist and then in 1887

Almost:
And every evening, at the appointed hour
(Or am I only dreaming it?)
Girlish figure, swathed in silk,
In the misty moving window.

And slowly passing between the drunken,
Always, without satellites, one
Breathing perfumes and mists,
She sits by the window.

(c) :D