Krasnosel'sk/Krasnosel'skie?

[Kristen Harkness]

Ah-ha!  This must be it. Thank you very much!

Trotting off to the art encyclopedias,
Kristen

On Aug 29, 2008, at 4:56 AM, William Ryan wrote:

> 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 Р
>> ±Ñ‹ Ñ‚Ñ‹ видел, что зР
>> ´ÐµÑˆÐ½Ð¸Ðµ немцы выстР
>> °Ð²Ð»ÑÑŽÑ‚ в своем СР
>> °ÐºÑÐ¾Ð½ÑÐºÐ¾Ð¼ «Kunst Verein» … О  
>> боже мой, наши крР
>> °ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÐµÐ»ÑŒÑÐºÐ¸Ðµ и  
>> компания совсем Ð¿ÐµÑ 
>> €ÐµÐ´ 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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