Who, to whom, why?

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

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Thought-Tretyakov.


A series of portraits of Russian writers, commissioned by Pavel Mikhailovich.
Yes, and Columbus, in Tolstoy's like, no?


Suffice rare name-Kramskoy.
That thought about this artist or imagined, because the very things are.
But, on there and the court is not ... (c)

That's all the way, and Perov fit.
He also served an order Tretyakov, Ostrovsky, Dostoyevsky ...
And perhaps he, my father, then he had a background Kridener, and mother-Ivanov !!!

In your answers are sensible grain. But what subjects could Kramskoi Tolstoy borrow? (... rumored that the artist at that Columbus is not one syuzhetets borrowed ...)
Riddle is not difficult - all the characters "to mean" (in contemporary language, "selebritiz" , here to dig in Rembrandt's pupils do not.

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Come on, Cyril Syzransky, free hand to defraud - What are the three names.
Neulyba, Artist, Columbus - who are they?