Krasnosel'sk/Krasnosel'skie?

[William Ryan]

Almost certainly the reference is to A. A. Krasnosel'skii, a rather 
second-rate 19th-c. Russian genre painter.
Will Ryan


Kristen Harkness wrote:
> Deer SEELANGers,
>
> I'm working on my dissertation on the artists Elena Polenova and 
> Mariia Iakunchikova.  I've come across a passage in one of Polenova's 
> letters that I can't quite figure out and am hoping one of you can 
> help.  She is writing to her brother, the painter Vasilii Polenov, 
> about the art she has seen on a trip to Germany:
>
>  "Но зато, Вася, если бы ты видел, что 
> здешние немцы выставляют в своем 
> Саксонском «Kunst Verein» … О боже мой, 
> наши красносельские и компания совсем 
> перед ними бледнеют."
>
> "No zato, Vasia, esli by ty videl, chto zdeshnie nemtsy vystavliaiut v 
> svoem Saksonskom 'Kunst Verein' … O bozhe moi, nashi krasnosel'skie 
> i kompaniia sovsem pered nimi bledneiut."
>
> I don't know of anyone she knew either in the city of Krasnosel'sk or 
> the Krasnoe selo near Moscow.  There was also a Krasnoe selo that was 
> near Petersburg at that time (now part of the city), so she could be 
> referring to acquaintances that lived there that I just don't know 
> about.  I'm wondering, however, if there might have been a slang use 
> of "krasnosel'skie" like "hicks" or "prudes."  Anyone know?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kristen
>
>
> Kristen Harkness
> PhD Candidate
> University of Pittsburgh
> History of Art and Architecture
> 104 Frick Fine Arts Building
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
> kmhst16 at pitt.edu
>
>
>
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