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Alyonushka_Painting parody

The work was completed in winter 1881 in Moscow, and then sent to the Society for Traveling Art Exebitions. Critic Igor Grabar called a picture of one of the best paintings of the Russian School. Vasnetsov himself as comments about his picture:

"Alyonushka" as it were lived in my head, but really I saw her in Ohtyrka when met a girl that has strike my imagination. So much sorrow, loneliness and purely Russian sadness.

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Uploaded on September 19, 2011
Taken on July 31, 2011