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Maslenitsa

Maslenitsa, a 1919 painting depicting the carnival of the same name, which takes places the last week before Great Lent. The painting encompasses a broad range of things associated with Russia, such as snowy winter weather, a troika, an Orthodox church with onion domes. On the right is a theatre with a wrestling poster. On the left is a pub advertising "cheese" and "caviar".

Artist: Boris Kustodiev
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