A full-length office double portrait of M.M. Arkas the second (right) and an unknown person (presumably one of the brothers). The young men are wearing stylized Cossack theatrical costumes – zhupans, trousers, boots, papakhas, a saber, a pistol, a rifle. Mykola Arkas is holding a bandura. The scene depicts a scene from the opera Zaporozhets Beyond the Danube by S. Hulak-Artemovsky (probably staged by the Mykolaiv Prosvita). The interior of the photo studio is decorated with trees and rock. On the dark grey mat “Photographie M. Krimmer”