The painting depicts an old merchant's house in Uralsk. (Kazakhstan). It was built in the 19th century. This house saw the events of the Great October Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Patriotic War. Eras, political systems changed, there were wars, this house continued to stand. Surprisingly, people still live in it today. I saw this house at night, in the summer of 2020, when I arrived in the city of my childhood. It was bathed in the light of a street lamp, surrounded by old trees. The ground floor of this house is gradually sinking into the ground because the level of the road is gradually getting higher and higher. Whenever I look at my painting, I think about the fate of the people who lived here, about the times that have passed, and the future. Who were these people, what was their fate, what happened to them? For all of them, this house gave shelter.
