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"Oprichnaya Princess"  
100 x 100 cm (39 x 39 inch)  
Oil on canvas  
2022

A new time has come when life has ceased to be a value, when cruelty has become a blessing, when death has become entertainment. The time when good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death changed places. The time has come for the sinister perverted theater of the absurd, when beauty and cruelty, genius and villainy, meanness and spirituality intertwined into one ball. When people became puppets, and the puppeteers themselves were puppets in the hands of a madman. The time of the oprichnina has come, a time as beautiful as a young fairy-tale princess and cruel as an octopus...