Boris Kustodiev · 1919
Maslenitsa (Shrovetide Festivities)
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Kustodiev's pre-Lenten carnival: a three-horse troika dashes past a fairground booth and a crowd in furs, below a frost-white hillside town of onion-domed churches. Painted while the artist was paralysed. Isaak Brodsky Museum-Apartment, St. Petersburg.
Up to 11 × 8 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Maslenitsa (Shrovetide Festivities)
Painted in 1916 while Kustodiev was already partially paralyzed by spinal tumours, Maslenitsa is the most-reproduced image of pre-revolutionary Russian folk life. A frozen provincial town glitters under a pink-and-gold winter sunset — onion-domed churches, troikas dashing through fresh snow, vendors and revelers gathered for the carnival week before Lent. Kustodiev painted it from memory in his Petrograd studio. The Russian Museum holds the largest version; the painting has come to stand for everything modern Russia would lose in the year that followed.
Boris Kustodiev
Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and stage designer during the Modernist period.
All Boris Kustodiev prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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