Dear John I understand you still interested in opinions of the forum on the authenticity of the picture. In my opinion (in this case) enough pictures that would understand that this work can not belong to the brush Alexei Petrovich Bogolyubov. Written this thing is very weak and at the first Comparing (even with the early work) can not withstand any criticism of either. Bogolyubov was an academician and the owner of a large gold medal (it was a very serious and the least numerous campaign). In 1953 Alexei Petrovich on orders from the highest appointed artist Sea Lord. He had a very close relationship with the family of the Russian emperor. He made friends with Turgenev and fruitful contact with barbizontsami (which are very highly valued his work). A comparison of these facts and pictures are very difficult to believe in this picture. As the price of the genuine work of AP Hierarchy of the same size and the plot then the price should be somewhere around $ 1.000.000-$ 1.500.000. That's my opinion.
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