Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright and centered — a stern, angry elderly Russian dormitory concierge (babka-vakhtyorsha) in her late sixties. Short build, stocky and slightly hunched, broad shoulders. Round wrinkled face, deep frown lines, pursed thin lips, sharp squinting eyes glaring through large old-fashioned spectacles on a beaded chain. Grey hair pulled into a tight tiny bun under a faded floral headscarf. She wears a shapeless dark-blue quilted housecoat over a grey knitted cardigan, thick brown wool tights, and worn felt slippers. Both weathered hands grip a well-used string mop, held upright like a guard's spear. Cluttered dim dormitory corridor behind her — chipped green walls, a battered wooden reception desk, a hanging key rack, a flickering ceiling bulb.
