"Triuki" -Reply

[Karen Kettering]

The attached file gives the context in which I found this word.



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The word "triuki" appears as one of several inscriptions on the
base of a polychrome statuette entitled "Shansonetka NEP" and
sometimes referred to as NEPmachka (1923) made by Natalia Dan'ko
in Petrograd/Leningrad.  It depicts a young woman with black
eyebrows, blond hair (as if it's bleached?) eyes thickly rimmed
with liner.  She wears lacy anklets, high heels, and a black
corset over a low-cut pink dress.  (The overall effect is
startlingly like that of the American pop singer Madonna).  The
figure's left hand is on her hip.   The base of the statuette has
several trompe l'oeil pieces of paper painted on it.  In front of
the young woman is a green placard marked in Russian: "Kabare
NEP/Triuki/Eksuentriki" (tricks and eccentricities?)   On a small
white placard on the back of the base is the phrase "kurs
chervontsa" and a smaller slip of paper saying "vnosite
podokhodnyi nalog" with the figure 1,000,000.  A small blue 25
ruble note is also painted on the ground.