I am the October holiday in Rome, fragment 1

Self-portraits No. 2 and No. 3, a man with a bottle of wine and a lady with a glass.
A fragment of this picture
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Paraphrase of the painting by Pimen Orlov "October Holiday in Rome" (1851)
Instead of the faces of the characters, I painted four self-portraits.
The first time I saw this picture being a child in a bookstore, how passionately I wanted to get on this holiday! I dreamed of becoming all characters and all objects at once.
After many years already in the halls of the State Tretyakov Gallery, I again saw this canvas, in the original. And I still like it terribly!
Having inserted my own physiognomy instead of the faces of the heroes of the picture, I tried to realize a childhood dream.