A monumental urban landscape rendered in tempera on cardboard, Valery Koshlyakov's *High-rise on Raushskaya Embankment* captures one of Moscow's iconic Stalinist skyscrapers with a raw, expressive energy. The artist's characteristic technique embraces the rough, absorbent qualities of cardboard, allowing the paint to bleed and crumble at the edges, lending the architectural subject a sense of grandeur tinged with decay. The work oscillates between celebration and critique, transforming Soviet-era monumentalism into something deeply atmospheric and painterly.