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Bearing Away the Bride

Bearing Away the Bride (Russian: Черемисская свадьба; also known by other titles, not officially established in art history bibliography: Cheremis Wedding, Seeing the Bride Away, Abduction of the Bride, Mari Wedding, Chuvash Wedding) is a painting by Russian artist Nicolai Fechin. It was painted in Kazan in 1908. Fechin collected the material for the canvas during a trip through Mari villages. Candidate of Art History Galina Tuluzakova called it a stage of Fechin's work, where he "for the first time and fully" manifested the peculiarities of the artist's compositional thinking, characterized by his principles of genre painting and color. Nicolai Fechin repeated and developed the innovations he found while working on Bearing Away the Bride in his later paintings Pouring and Slaughterhouse. It was exhibited at major national (St. Petersburg, Kazan) and international art exhibitions (Munich, Pittsburgh, New York, Chicago) many times. There is a significant scientific and popular research literature dedicated to the painting, its fate has been closely followed by the media for decades. In 2011, the painting returned to the Russian Federation from the United States, where it had been for a century, but it is part of a private collection and is currently unavailable to a wide audience of art amateurs.

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