Primitive art captures us in a special way. "Minor", "uneducated" artists were sincerely excited about their sitters, having a profound respect for them. This respect even the piety comes out of the paintings. Vorontsovs or Lvovs - the highest nobility - on the portraits by Rokotov and Levitsky pretended to look courteous and free. Unlike them provincial landlords of the middle class preferred to bestand before the future generations as respected noblemen, full of self-recognition: unwinkling gaze, tucked lips, stiffed posture.