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Stenka Razin

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Olga Avenirovna Kopienko

Stepan (Stenka) Timofeyevich Razin (1630-1671) was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and the tsar’s bureaucracy in Southern Russia. The folk song about Razin tells a story of his marriage to a Persian princess and the unease it created among Razin’s followers. To restore peace and the sense of camaraderie, Razin throws the young woman into the Volga River where she drowns. The Russian melody was used by Tom Springfield in the song The Carnival is Over that placed The Seekers at #1 in 1965 in Australia and the UK.
Artist
Olga Avenirovna Kopienko
(Russian, b. 1966)
Title
Stenka Razin
Date
1999
Medium
Papier-mâché, paint, and lacquer
Dimensions
4 1/4 x 2 7/8 x 1 9/16 in. Overall
Credit
From the Collection gifted by Frederick C. Seibold, Jr.
Accession No.
2008.44.46
Geography
Russia

Related

  • Chazen Museum of Art. "Russian Lacquer Boxes: A Narrative Tradition." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2006. p. 14, no. 50

  • Russian Lacquer Boxes: A Narrative Tradition: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/18/2006–1/14/2007

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