ORIENTALISM IN THE CREATIVE WORK OF NICOLAI RUSAKOV (1888-1941). UNKNOWN PICTURE OF THE INDIAN SYCLE (BASED ON THE IMPRESSIONES UPON THE FIRST TRAVEL TO THE EAST): QUESTIONS OF ATRIBUTION AND INTERPRETATION
In this article the author continues to develop the problem of orientalism as a worldview and world perception in the world artistic practice, focusing on the local space of the Southern Urals. A picture with an oriental motif probably painted by our fellow countryman painter N. A. Rusakov, which recently appeared in the community of collectors, became an object of the analysis of the manifestations of orientalism in the regional art. Referring the works of foreign and domestic scientists, who previously published articles on the tradition of orientalism in the works of the South Ural artists, the author publishes the results of scientific and artistic examination of the painting of the Russian Soviet orientalist of the South Ural Nikolai Rusakov, proving his authorship and including the hitherto unknown painting into the opus of the artist's heritage, giving it a reasonable name.