A weathered 1960s Soviet panel apartment building, nine stories, gray concrete with visible seams between slabs, standing at the edge of a small Russian provincial town. A dense autumn forest presses against it — birches and pines, half-stripped of yellow leaves. Beyond the trees, an old pre-war cemetery with tilted wooden crosses and rusted iron fences sinking into overgrown earth. It is a grey rainy September day, mist blurring the boundary between the forest and the graves. One window on an upper floor is dark, but a faint candlelight glow seeps from within. Muted desaturated palette, cold greys, damp greens, pale amber. Cinematic composition, wide shot, book cover format, atmospheric Russian folk horror, painterly digital illustration.
