The painting was accepted for the exhibition, but many "masters", "old men" scolded it. He's not theirs, he's some kind of stranger… This is not a painting, this is an icon, its place is in a church, not at an exhibition! The picture is harmful, it undermines rationalistic foundations… Visions, they said, were the domain of a psychiatrist, not an artist. Mysticism, lack of reality, pseudonymity, pharisaism, unnaturalness in landscapes… Nesterov was accused of everything! Evil must be uprooted, it is a pity that the painting already belongs to Tretyakov. It is necessary to explain to him his mistake…