Ice mountains in Moscow on Neglinka during the oil week

The artist is Delabart

The only type of Moscow work. Delabart, who depicts the city in winter. Skiing from the ice mountains, their favorite entertainment during Shrovetide, made a great impression on foreigners. A similar plot seen in St. Petersburg served as the theme of the picture of the English painter J. Atkinson (“Skating from the mountains on the Neva”, 1792, timing). There were usually two wooden icy mountains, rally to meet each other. Those who wanted to use small sleds for a small fee, and descended from the mountain at a huge speed.

On the right is the Kremlin wall with corner and medium arsenal towers. Neglinnaya (Neglinka) covered by ice, which later, in 1818–1819, was enclosed in the pipe (later on this place, the Alexander Park was divided). Exhibition catalog in Malaga “Seasons. Works from the collection of the Russian Museum “. 2015. With. twenty. Behind Arsenal (or Zeichgauz, 1702–1736), erected by order of Peter I.

Genre scenes convey the color of the oil week: fist fights, the construction of a snow fortress, the consequences of a rampant life.

In a series of paintings by Gerard Delabart, we see many women’s costumes with scarves. In this picture, a female figure stands out with a scarf on the head tied under the chin.