Artist Creates Beautiful Photorealistic Posthumous Portraits of People on Gravestones

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People always want to keep the memory of their deceased loved ones alive. Even if they are simple portraits on granite slabs. This tradition is many years old, but it does not get old with time.

Denis Simonov, a Russian engraver from Voronezh helps people to keep the memory of the deceased alive by creating realistic portraits on the monuments. This is both sad and beautiful at the same time.

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