Tempera on canvas. 1999. 110 х 80 cm

Sagaly Tayi - the Great Chief, an impersonal deity of the North-American Indians, he has abandoned his children, the native land no more is their home… But, having moved to foreign land, they till the morning talk about return of Tayi. And look to the east, until the dawn make a flame of fire absolutely pale… How much this resembles the waiting for Maitreya and for new arrival of Geser - Khan in far Asia?