The mystery of the great painter

Who is depicted in a famous painting by Kramskoy called "Stranger"? There are many different versions of the answer to this question. What secret is hiding behind a picture that hung on the wall in every other Soviet apartment? And how are the killings happening at the present time, with a mysterious "Stranger" and fatal beauty, whose beauty brought to mind not only of count Bestuzhev, the greatest painter of his era of Ivan Kramskoy, but all of St. Petersburg artists? Is it true that the picture brings nothing but misfortune to all its owners and why?