The bylina theme assumed a special importance in
the Soviet fine art during the Great Patriotic War. At that time a lot of works
about ancestors’ strength and courage, their independence and love of the
motherland began to appear.
Avdotia Ryazanochka
Creation period
The second half of the 20th century
Dimensions
5x20x2,9 cm
Technique
paper-mache, egg tempera, leaf-gold, lacquer, miniature lacquer painting
Exhibition
0
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Moshkovich Vladimir Kapelievich
The plot of the ancient bylina about Avdotia Ryazanochka is depicted on the small box of the honoured artist of RF Moshkovich Vladimir Kapelievich (1946–2018). It narrates about the plunder of Ryazan by Tartar troops in 1237.
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“During tatarshchina (Tartar yoke) it was not that Russian mothers and wives cried they swam in tears. Also, “Ryazan country woman” Avdotia cried when she had seen smouldering ruins instead of the town. Nevertheless, she did not cry long. She went on a long journey to Orda (Tartar nomad habitat) to set her husband, son and brother free from captivity.
Common Russian woman Avdotia spun, weaved, washed, did laundry for all her life but in danger she showed great strength of her soul. There she was standing in front of the dread Tartar tzar surrouded by the Orda (Tartar troop) with swords and spears. She was small in bast shoes. But there was not fear on her tongue, there was a thundering word: “Tzar, I have come to litigate with you!” The Tartar tzar was astounded by Avdotia courage seeing that she had been going to Orda single and alone on the dreadful way over, had been enduring starvation and cold for all the year. So, he let not only her and her family but all the Ryazan captivity go to Ancient Rus”.
folklorist and writer Boris Victorovich Shchergin
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Vladimir Moshkovich showed
the bylina plot according to the icon-painting tradition. It means to combine
various events of the one plot in one composition. The narration is carried out
with the help of the plot pictures.
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The order of the plot pictures is from the left to the right. The narration begins with the picture of Ryazan on fire and a group of people seeing Avdotia off to Orda. On the right there is a picture “Avdotia Ryazanochka is speaking with Tartar tzarishche (Tartar dread ruler) who holds her family captive”.
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During the Great Patriotic War many Russian women performed feats, production at the factories, hard work on the farming acreages were on their shoulders. The bylina about Avdotia Ryazanochka gained a new life in the Soviet post-war society. Such theme was embodied in decorative and applied arts, but it was not widely used in painting of Vladimir artists. The main genre of Vladimir painting school representatives was a landscape. If there were people in the landscape, they were mostly as painting staffage.
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V.K. Moshkovich, “Avdotia Ryazanochka”
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Avdotia Ryazanochka
Creation period
The second half of the 20th century
Dimensions
5x20x2,9 cm
Technique
paper-mache, egg tempera, leaf-gold, lacquer, miniature lacquer painting
Exhibition
0
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