painting of beards

[Jeff Holdeman]

Here is an image from an 18th-century illuminated Old Believer manuscript:

http://www.slavic.ohio-state.edu/people/holdeman/ob/shavers.htm


The text reads:

Muka bradobrivtsam": Ashche cheloviek" bradu ostrizhet" i umiret"
tak", to diemoni shilom" po vsiemu tielu ego koliut".

Torture for those who shave their beards: When a man cuts his beard
and dies, demons stab him with an awl over his whole body.


Jeff


Jeff Holdeman
The Ohio State University
holdeman.2 at osu.edu


>Dear Seelangers,
>
>A student of mine is researching beards in Russian cultural history. He's
>found sources on Orthodoxy, Peter the Great's tax, Lomonosov's hymn. I'd
>like to give him some visual material to work with. I recall at least one
>painting in which beards figure prominently (something about the old beards
>and the new...) but haven't been able to locate it. Does this ring a bell
>to anyone?
>
>Russell Valentino
>
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