What is it?
 

Cardboard 55-60 cm on the larger side.

mihailovoh,
some of our contemporaries wanted to be a Fedot Sicovam, and sign in the old orthography, there are different fantasies

one of the options - advertising

??? If it were our contemporaries .I would not ask.
Cardboard old."painting" and earlier .and finished 20 years ago..

mihailovoh, Well, cardboard and old.. And painting "old" is as the plague. Although it depends on what you consider "old" of course

Good time colleagues.
After looking through the pictures from the Internet on the works of F. Sychkov and ventured all the same to make the examination. At least show specialists. Yes, the signature is not ,, classic" and someone else may and late, and maybe a late author.
Painting itself fits, I think, in the fabric of his work.
This is the view from the outside, Amateur and probably naive.
With HC.

Solovlad, not naive. - a healthy perspective. Expertise-maybe overkill , but consult the owner need with experts singer Mordovia region. He-HC. the owner knows everything )) . But the problem is that the singer Macs and Lupino died somewhat earlier than can be stylistically dated painting. And how should we-? Old spelling signature once then goes on a distant plan, because of discrepancies this and that..

Solovlad,
This work is seen on the wall even 15 years ago.Decided to take a picture now and post.
Don't really understand it .but hurt for sure.by not going.
My opinion-nice full-scale study-sketch.N\X the first half-the middle of the 20th.(G. Zh. F. Sychkov 1870-1958 in my opinion).Someone decided to "eliminate defects and drew in some places.Signed struck for pictures because the style gets in F. Sychkov.
The point in the examination't see it.better-more honest to wash off the signature.

mihailovoh, thanks.
With HC.