Show all images on one page	#005869 Title: Alexander Pushkin in Boldino in Fall Artist: Baulina V. Size: 7.5x15.5x3.5 Size (inches): 3x5x1.25 Price : $475 SOLD!

This composition showing the great Russian poet in the village of Boldino was painted by Fedoskino artist V.Baulina. Village of Boldino took a great place in Pushkin's biography. Financial arrangements in connection with his father's wedding gift to him (the estate of Kistenevo) necessitated a visit to the neighboring estate of Boldino, in east-central Russia. When Pushkin arrived there in September 1830, he expected to remain only a few days; however, for three whole months he was held in quarantine by an epidemic of Asiatic cholera. These three months in Boldino turned out to be literary the most productive of his life. During the autumn at Boldino, Pushkin wrote the five short stories of "The Tales of Belkin"; the verse tale "The Little House in Kolomna"; his little tragedies, "The Avaricious Knight", "Mozart and Salieri"; "The Stone Guest", and "Feast in the Time of the Plague; "The Tale of the Priest and His Workman Balda", the first of his fairy tales in verse; the last chapter of "Eugene Onegin", and "The Devils", among other lyrics.
Pushkin liked the village of Boldino very much. During the first days of his visit there he wrote to Pletnev (reference to the book "Pushkin's contemporaries") "What a beautiful village here's! Imagine: steppe and steppe; there are no neighbors, you can ride as much as you want, you can write poems at home as much as you want, nobody prevents you. I'll prepare you different things either prose or poems.
The composition shows A.S. Pushkin leaning his elbows on the wicker fence and pondering over his brilliant works of literature. All the elements of the scene are strikingly elaborated. Ultra-fine brushwork creates the features of the poet, the texture of his clothes, and the surrounding rural landscape. The painter successfully reproduces the atmosphere of autumn. Trees, bushes are painted in yellow and reddish tones, dry grass is somewhere green, and somewhere yellow, the dull autumn sky is covered with gray clouds. The original of this composition was painted by the outstanding Fedoskino painter M.G. Pashinin, and you can see it in the small catalogue by Soloninkin N., Dmitriev B., 1995, FEDOSKINO LACQUER MINIATURE, Fedoskino factory of miniature art, Moscow, image # 69.
The gold patterns decorate the sides of the lid. The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. The box has a hinge from the left of the composition and rests on a flat bottom. The box is signed with the artist's name, village and year (2009).