More a "Madonna and Child" - who is the author?

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Сообщение от sergejnowo

and you, for comparison, show the Russian n /x - handicraftsman beginning of the end of 18 th - early 19 th century.
And the best Ukrainian ..

We recall that
smith, a mighty man
and even where the young man, who the devil was against his father's sermons
Kondrat. In his spare time from the affairs of a blacksmith and worked malevaniem
reputation of being the best painter in the circuit. Sam even then
L. .. long live the captain called him to purposely in Poltava
paint the wooden fence near his home. All the bowls, of which
dikanskie Cossacks gulped soup, were daubed blacksmith.
Smith was bogoboyazlivy man and wrote parts of the image of the saints: and
now still be found in T. .. his Luke the Evangelist Church. But
the triumph of his art was a painting, painted on to
wall of the church in the right vestibule, in which he depicted
St. Peter's Day of Judgment, with keys in hand
Banishing evil spirit from hell, scared the devil tossed in all
hand, in anticipation of its destruction, and concluded before
wicked beat and chased him with whips, logs and all than any
horrible. At a time when the painter was working on this door with a picture
and wrote it on a large wooden board that features all the forces
tried to prevent it: pushed by unseen hands, rising from
forge in the smithy ashes and sprinkled it now, but, despite
all work was finished, the board entered into the church and built into the
the wall of the porch, and since then the devil has sworn to avenge the blacksmith. (c)