Haven't read that ^^ and wouldn't call the process in Europe decline but rather "another European metamorphose".
But back to Kazakhstan...
"The Grand Chessboard" by Arsen Seksenbaev.
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Whose bust is in the background?
My guess would be possibly Field Marshall Mikhail Kutuzov?
Cannot find any pictures of Zhukov's office which might give a better look at the bust
However
In Kazakhstan, a single-copy painting was painted under the title "Chess Game", which reflects four great events in world history.
The first event, the picture shows the former and current Heads of State of Russia and Kazakhstan.
The second event, in the picture, the characters are located exactly as in the famous photograph of Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky in 1908, "chess on the island", namely the events took place in Capri, at the villa of Maxim Gorky, where in a chess game, two Bolshevik revolutionaries A. Bogdanov against V. Lenin, the leader of the proletariat for the first time publicly lost to Bogdanov.
The third event, on the chessboard, the arrangement of the pieces is exactly the same as in the famous "Immortal Game" which took place in London in 1851, when the greatest grandmaster Lionel Kieseritsky, having made a mistake, lost to the German chess player Anderson, while losing the title of the best grandmaster in the world.
The fourth event, a chess game between the heads of state, takes place in the office of Victory Marshal G.K. Zhukov.
The author and owner of the picture is the Kazakh designer Arsen Seksenbaev
