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Bearing Away the Bride
Other titles: Cheremis Wedding, Seeing the Bride Away, Abduction of the Bride, Mari Wedding, Chuvash Wedding. Painted in Kazan in 1908. Fechin collected the material for the canvas during a trip through Mari villages.
The Mari (/ˈmɑːri/ MAR-ee), also formerly known as the Cheremis or Cheremisses, are a Finno-Ugric people in Eastern Europe, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama rivers in Russia. They live mostly in the Mari El republic, with significant minorities in Bashkortostan, Perm Krai, Tatarstan and Udmurtia.
Черемисская свадьба
Other titles: Cheremis Wedding, Seeing the Bride Away, Abduction of the Bride, Mari Wedding, Chuvash Wedding. Painted in Kazan in 1908. Fechin collected the material for the canvas during a trip through Mari villages.
The Mari (/ˈmɑːri/ MAR-ee), also formerly known as the Cheremis or Cheremisses, are a Finno-Ugric people in Eastern Europe, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama rivers in Russia. They live mostly in the Mari El republic, with significant minorities in Bashkortostan, Perm Krai, Tatarstan and Udmurtia.