Ploughing Rite

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Number:004476

Title:Ploughing Rite

Artist: Myasoedov, Grigori Grigoryevich (1834-1911)

Museum: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Method: Oil on canvas

Created: 1876

School: Russia

Category: Genre
Mythology, Allegory and Literature

Trend in art: Russian Painting of 19th cen.

Keywords: Fire, Ploughland, Plough, Land, Farming, Fresh start, Hope, Ritual, Tradition, Ceremony, Genre scene, Folklore, Traditional, Farmland, Gods, Peasant women, Peasants life, Plough-up rite, Rite, Rites, Rituals, Slavic mythology, Slavic religion, Russian folklore, Slavic Mysteries, Marzanna, Murava, Morena, Peredvizhniki, The Wanderers, The Itinerants, Ploughing