Sabr Painting

I depict old town in Crimea Bakhchisarai and Khans Palace at night time .The Khan's Palace in Bakhchisaray is the most famous museum associated with the history of the Crimean Tatars, the territory of the summer residence of the Crimean khans of the Girays. Inside of this old town I depict a portrait of Crimean tatar singer Elvira which are sing a song right on a canvas. Bakhchisarai was the capital of a Tatar kingdom . Today’s tense mood, one year after the Russian Federation’s annexation of the peninsula, has brought back old fears among Crimean Tatars I painted a word , Islamic Sabr which means patience. This picture on a two canvases - diptych.