... in a portrait indicate the status of the portrayed person. The set of objects may create a semantic field: skull, clock and fading flowers in a still life stay for vanitas, but in genre painting clock ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... enjoyed painting the region where he lived (the Maslovka district). Some of his portraits were depicted against the Petrovskii Park (The Girl with a red bow, 1930). His genre paintings and magazine illustrations ...