Grandma Playing Boy by Nikolai Pimenov

Grandma Playing Boy by Nikolai Pimenov

Grandma game was widespread in Russia, especially in the village. There is evidence that it was already distributed in the VI-VIII centuries. For the game used grandmothers – specially treated bones of the lower joints, most often cows. Each player had their bones and bits.

The headstock lined up nests of two or more and beat them according to certain rules, depending on which version of the game the plock, jog, con will choose. Pimenov portrays Devewski guy behind this game. In the 1930s – 1940s, a new subject penetrated the strict system of academic genres.

Competition programs for the gold medal are becoming more diverse, mythological and religious themes give way to scenes taken directly from life. Taken from the life of the national life plot reworked on the academic program. The piece was created according to the academic program. In 1838, the statues were cast from cast iron and installed in Tsarskoye Selo in front of the Alexander Palace.

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