Show all images on one page	#002940 Title: General Toptygin (1945) Artist: Chelishev Ivan Alexandrovich(1918-1973) Size: 12.5x9.5x2.5 Size (inches): 5x3.75x1 Price : $1250 SOLD!

This antique box was painted by the outstanding Palekh artist Ivan Alexandrovich Chelyshev (1918-1973). He was born on 24th of November, 1918 in the village of Danilovo, the Ivanovo-Voznesenskaya Province. In 1938 he finished the Palekh Art School. His teachers were A.V. Kotukhin and N.M. Zinovyev. Since 1938 Chelyshev worked in the Association of Palekh artists. Themes of his works - folklore, literature, history. Participated in various exhibitions since 1950. Chelyshev's works are exhibited in the State Museum of Palekh Art, in the Museum of Folk Art of the Art Industry Research Institute and in the Ivanovo Regional Art Museum.
The most famous Chelyshev's works:

“In the Earth-House”
- “The Hymn of Bolsheviks' Party”
- “The Snowstorm” 1947, the Ivanovo Regional Art Museum
- “On the Sunny Glade”, 1948, the Ivanovo Regional Art Museum
- “Russian Women in the World War II”

The box features a scene from the poem “General Toptigin”, written by Nikolay Nekrasov in the mid-19th century. It is a comic tale about a bear who takes a chaotic ride in a troika. Once a vagrant actor with a bear asks the coachman to take him to the appointed place. The coachman agrees. Driving past the tavern, the coachman and the vagrant actor decide to drop in to have a glass of wine. The bear left in the troika roars, and the scared horses start galloping. The villagers and the inspector of the road station mistake the bear dressed in the general uniform riding in the troika for the general. Everything falls into place when the actor and the coachman catch up with the sledge.