With a diploma by Vasily Maximov

With a diploma by Vasily Maximov

What was required from the girl in the XIX century? To be humble, have good manners and a minimum of knowledge gained from the houredricans hired for home schooling. The desire of a girl to get a real, formal education in an educational institution was often considered bliss and pure nonsense. But the family depicted in the picture of Maximov “With a diploma!”, Considered otherwise. Parents decided to give their daughter an education and now the graduate has returned home.

Bright sunny room. The decoration of the room is not rich – the furniture is worn, special decorations are not visible. Most likely, here lives a family with modest incomes. The girl has just come to her family – this is what the prevailing mess in the room says. Things lie here and there: a box with hats is on the table, an opened suitcase is left on the floor. Things that had been pulled out of him were scattered randomly – the daughter must have eagerly looked for a diploma, in a hurry to show him to his mother.

Among all this, in the center of the picture – the girl herself. Just yesterday, she studied hard, and today, with tears of joy in her eyes, she shows her mother the received cherished diploma. At the graduate – a simple dark gray student’s dress, her feminine hat with flowers remained nearby on the coffee table. She is kneeling with her hands on her mother’s lap. Her reddened face glows with pride, happiness and joy of the long-awaited meeting – how long she was not at home, how much she missed her family.

The girl’s mother is sitting on a chair, half a turn to the viewer. In the hands of a woman holding a paper, talking about how diligently her young daughter studied and how much she had achieved in school. Close to her eyes, she pushed her cum up, squinting and gazing at what was written to see everything carefully. From pride for the graduate she is all glowing bright girlish blush. A little more, and she herself will cry for joy, gently hugging and hugging her dear daughter.

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