Price of the issue - a bag of millet and Rooster

In the autumn of 1921 in the studio of the famous painter Boris Kustodiev a young man who asked him - is it true that he only paints portraits of famous people. He offered to paint a portrait of those who become famous - himself and his friend, the chemist Coley Semenov. Young people are paid to the artist, and a bag of millet cock (perhaps it is, not a promise to become famous was decisive in the year of famine), and as to their promise ... By the end of life, they will be two to two Nobel prizes in Physics and Chemistry four senior Soviet title of Hero of Socialist Labor and fifteen highest orders - Orders of Lenin. The state, Lenin and Stalin Prizes, we simply will not be considered.
The name of this young man Pyotr Kapitsa.

At the same time, zadernuv portrait of Chaliapin, Kustodiev said with a sigh: "For the first time the food of unknown but very persistent young people"