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Vivian, you are asking the right question, but, unfortunately, very little information. I know that the painting was bought in a store Datsiaro someone from my distant relatives of noble origin. Presumably they lived somewhere on the Petrograd side in the Barmaleevskoy streets and had their own house or several floors in the big house.

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You know the Russian artist - amateur guess these charades of leaves and twigs?

In fact, I turned to the forum hoping to find specialists to get answers to several questions about his work, including this. If professionals are not here, or they have not yet come, then he can try to answer.
Specifically, I have not studied this subject, but something that came across.
Start with a wish that the secret or hidden icons signatures more typical of the Flemish masters. I was told museum staff that someone brought to the museum by an unknown Western European artist, bought before the revolution as something on the occasion of the store Datsiaro at Sea, 11. She was in bad condition, but something they are interested. Decided to restore. When cleaning somewhere on a stone restorer found a little icon of a famous Flemish painter, whose name, unfortunately, I forgot. Now the work is in the Hermitage.
Among Russian artists can point Borovikovsky. For example, in his portraits in a landscape is not immediately possible to find the artist's signature, which is located on some stone.
At one show I looked carefully at the drawings Shishkin, bought Bogolyubov and having, respectively, 100%provenance. Besides the main signature of the artist in several places the figure is a repetition of the signature cursive. I do not know specifically whether the artist to duplicate a signature to prove his ownership in the case of cutting the work into parts, or the movements of his hand, as when writing a signature. At Shishkin I have not yet discovered this: there are so many different strokes and the museum is not possible to see the work as one might think.
At another forum gave me the information on this subject: "I had a student job Shishkin (Gurkin) the signature was masked and even bought a big bukvami.Sam uvidel.A when the signature was not only admired the work of a week with distances of 3 meters saw. That's so.
One can assume that it Shishkin and his disciples engaged in precisely the conscious concealment of their signatures in the blades of grass.
As the closest example I can now N. Krymov "Moscow landscape. Rainbow, 1908, the State Tretyakov Gallery. Encouraged to find in it what I say.
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More carefully, I tried to deal with the signatures of AI Kuindzhi, but perhaps that's another story. I can tell more, but I hope that experts will approach and tell some more interesting and instructive things.