Christmas & New Year Fairs in the paintings of Russian artists (PICS)
What is Russian New Year without a fir tree? And also, without cheerful fairs, where you can get into the spirit of the winter holidays and get charged with fun for the whole next year?
Genrikh Manizer, ‘Christmas Tree Sale’, 1870s
Alexander Buchkuri, ‘Christmas Fair’, 1906
Boris Kustodiev, ‘Christmas Tree Sale’, 1918
Boris Kustodiev, ‘Winter Fair’, 1921
Mikhail Bobyshev, ‘New Year's Tree on Manezhnaya Square’, 1947
Tatiana Eremina, ‘Pre-New Year's Eve Bustle’, 1953
Naum Zeitlin, ‘Christmas tree market’, 1956
Nahum Zeitlin, ‘We are bringing a Christmas tree’
Yuri Kugach, ‘Happy New Year’, 1988
Vladimir Grigoriev, ‘Fair in Kirzhach, Vladimir Region in 1929’, 1993
Andrey Lipatov, ‘Christmas’, 1996
