Rose in kulichi? [idle question]

[Helena Tolstoy]

Those flowers were, and still are, made of wax paper -- or rather  of
colored crepe paper heavily covered (I think by dipping) in paraffin.

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Subject: [SEELANGS] Rose in kulichi? [idle question]

I was noodling aroung the web looking for paintings by Kustodiev and I came
across a painting that shows a table set for Easter dinner. 

There are two kulichi visible and it looks like they are decorated with
roses
(one rose per kulich) with their stems stuck through the white icing on the
top.

Anybody ever seen anything like this? Or am I misinterpreting the painting?

Peter Scotto
Mount Holyoke College
pscotto at mtholyoke.edu

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