) Please help to identify the author and the estimated cost of the picture
 

Good day!

The picture is old, after restoration.
About the origin story is dark.
Judging by the signature - Russian author.
I could not identify.

Help identify the author.
Maybe this is all a copy?

The character in the picture, probably Plyushkin, and the signature is not what to read, and could not see in this photo.
(Signature like Cyrillic and a samovar in the foreground)

Signed, I think - "A.Novoskoltsev."
(Ie - Academician Alexander painting Nikanorovich Novoskoltsev).
Something like that.

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The second photo - marvelous . Needlework is one of my very old friend said: Seamstress Nenila ! Skirt sewed - sewn ass cat to ...
Interestingly , he nails that kind makarom nahrenachil because he was heavily drunk ? Or just do not know what can be done differently?
Restorers edrent !

Similar. :)
shall be opened to the door, he finally found himself in the clear and was struck by the disorder appears. It seemed as if the house and washing floors happened here during piled all the furniture. At one table there was even a broken chair, and next to it, with a stopped clock pendulum, which has already adjusted the spider web. Here stood leaning sideways to the wall cupboard with antique silver decanter and Chinese porcelain. On byure, Laid perlamutnoyu mosaic that places have fallen and left behind some little yellow grooves filled with glue, lay a lot of stuff: a lot of small pieces of paper covered with writing, covered with marble green with oil with egg on top, some old leather-bound book with a red edged, lemon, all dried up, the growth of no more hazelnut otlomlennaya handle chairs, a glass with a kind of liquid and three flies, covered letter surguchika piece, a piece somewhere raised cloths, two pen, ink-stained, dried as in consumption , toothpick, completely yellowed, which the owner may be picking their teeth before the invasion of Moscow French.
   ..............
 In the corner of the room was piled on the floor, a lot of what is and what is unworthy pogrubee on the table. What exactly was in the pile, it was hard to decide, because the dust on it was in such abundance that all relate to getting hands like gloves noticeable things stuck out there otlomlenny piece of wooden shovels and old sole of his boot. (a) :D

Last name, I think, begins with the letter "J"?

Thanks for the feedback! I have had the honor to make sure the high competence of the participants of this forum.
That's what I call myself this picture " Plyushkin " or " miser ." Not responsible for the restoration , as it was to me. The owner promised to send a picture to the photo restoration.
It would be desirable , of course , that it was Novoskoltsev :). But, in my opinion it is not. Signature at Novoskoltseva another and read the names on the picture clear "W ".
However , the picture seems to me strong.

And with what you have compared the signatures on which picture Novoskoltseva?

So what?
The interval between the studs is correct, they are not in line, well, in my opinion ...

The most readable signature found on this site

http://www.art-katalog.net/img31.htm


More

http://www.tstu.ru/win/kultur/art/galer/rus31.htm


Originals not seen.

It's funny ... :)
The " Confession " signature differs from plyushkinskoy but "Svetlana " something very similar, really - the exact same title , but a capital "[SIZE=3"]and[/SIZE] " in its name , same cross crossed below the " n " at the beginning of the names , even just down below his signature in the end ...
Do you not see?