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Historic Painting: "A Boyar Wedding Feast" by Konstantin Makovsky, 1883.
Sean Munger
This scene depicting 16th or 17th century Russia has more to do with the present than you might think.
It's been more than a month since my last Historic Painting post (which itself had sort of an unexpected reception on social media, see the end of this article for that story).
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In doing my belated rounds of 19th century art I discovered this gem from Russia, titled "A Boyar Wedding Feast." In this absorbing and vibrant scene, we're in Russia evidently in the 16th or 17th century, and the rather somber-looking bride at the right is being sold in marriage to a member of the nobility while parents, family members and hangers-on toast with various shades of enthusiasm.
And evidently they're about to eat an enormous swan served on a platter. A boyar, for the record, was a member of the highest feudal class in imperial Russia, a nobleman or landowner. In this period,