It is an early version of the painting "The Cardsharps". At other times Tolstoy became the victim of other cardsharps and suffered great losses. This drew on his own earlier genre-pieces, "Cardsharps" and "The Fortune Teller", but writ large. It's yo-yo tricks performed by cardsharps with the street cred of a Parkour video. The British art historian Denis Mahon acquired a copy of "Cardsharps" at auction in 2006.