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Art style: Chinese Ink. Full-length view, the entire figure visible from head to feet, standing upright and centered — Ataman Grigory, an old battle-hardened Ural Cossack elder and mentor. He is tall and broad-shouldered but weathered, in his late sixties, with a lean sinewy build and a straight proud posture despite his age. His face is deeply lined and sun-darkened, with high cheekbones, a hooked nose, sharp pale-grey eyes under heavy brows, and a long thick grey-white drooping mustache with a short beard. He wears a tall black astrakhan papakha hat, a dark blue Cossack cherkeska coat with cartridge-pockets across the chest, a crimson sash at the waist, loose dark trousers, and worn black leather riding boots. A curved shashka sabre hangs at his left hip. He rests both hands on the sabre hilt, stern and commanding, standing on a windswept Ural steppe at dusk with distant low hills and tall dry grass. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt): Render this image in the following art style: traditional Chinese hand-painted animation — textured canvas / rice-paper grain, visible brushstroke and pigment texture like aged gouache painting, muted nostalgic palette (deep teal-blue night, warm ochre skin tones, a single accent of lattice-window red), soft flickering candlelight with strong chiaroscuro, thick contour linework on characters, 1930s–40s Chinese traditional dress, slow deliberate camera movement. Every surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in this idiom.