in the style of Ilya Repin, wide 3:4 cinematic plate, full-body group of three clearly separate village women of 50, 60 and 70 years in distinct rust, sage and charcoal wool shawls standing in a post-office queue each holding a letter, while the last in the queue is only a young soldier's backlit silhouette with a peaked cap standing in the bright doorway, the silhouette at the queue end as the witness, earthy ochre-and-umber palette with loose realist brushwork, quiet waiting mood