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Boris Kustodiev · 1916

Maslenitsa (Shrovetide)

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Kustodiev's pre-Lenten festival — a horse-drawn troika racing through a snow-bright Russian town under a coral and turquoise sky. Pure colour-joy painted while the artist was bedridden with paralysis. Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.

Up to 10 × 7 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)

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.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.