 After the event Pavel decided that his magnum opus would be named "Requiem", or "Requiem for Russia", and would depict the funeral service of Patriarch Tikhon and show the Russia that was lost after the October Revolution.Korin feverishly painted people present at the burial service for Tikhon, often the last survivors of families of Russian nobility, or dissident priests, soon to be destroyed.Rumors about the dangerous painting soon became a matter of NKVD interest.