Kapustnitsa (Nikolai Fechin)

Kapustnitsa (Russian: Капустница) is a painting by Russian, Soviet and American artist Nicolai Fechin (219 x 344 cm). The canvas depicts a scene from everyday life in a Russian village and small provincial towns at the beginning of the 20th century. It displays the tradition of kapustnitsa ("cabbage works"), a communal work to salt cabbage for the winter.

In 1909, it became his diploma work at the graduation course of the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts. The artist received a gold medal for it Candidate of Art History Galina Tuluzakova called this picture "the most significant and harmonious" multifigure composition of the artist. Kapustnitsa is one of only four large genre works by Nicolai Fechin. It is currently part of the collection and is presented in the permanent exposition of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

The painting Kapustnitsa was presented at two major pre-revolutionary exhibition…

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