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A Boyar Wedding Feast

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Original – The work depicting a Russian wedding won a gold medal at the World’s Fair held in Antwerp, Belgium in 1885. The painting is widely known in Russia, and it is a very popular painting, remembering the good old times.

Reason

Good scan, iconic painting, by Konstantin Makovsky (1839–1915) The Russian artist's most renowned painting. The painting shows a toast, during which the bride and the groom are expected to kiss each other. The bride and the groom are standing at the right. A roosted swan is brought in, on a large platter. The swan is the last dish served, before the couple retires into the bedroom. The bride looks sad and reluctant, while the matchmaker standing behind her encourages the bride to kiss the groom.

Articles in which this image appears

A Boyar Wedding Feast (own article) _{^{by Godot and Hafspajen}}, Russian wedding traditions, Konstantin Makovsky, Boyar, Wedding reception

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Konstantin Makovsky

• Support as co-nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 16:52, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support - that swan looks like it swam out of Sunrise with Sea Monsters. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 17:52, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support as co-nominator – Out of town, but happy to be involved...--Godot13 (talk) 17:54, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

and a good deal more will be added to the article next week.--Godot13 (talk) 17:57, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

• Support – Yann (talk) 19:16, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Isn't she demure! But Uncle Ivan's already had too much to drink. Sca (talk) 23:22, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:33, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Tremonist (talk) 13:03, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 14:00, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 03:09, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support --sst✈^discuss 17:46, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support - for all the right reasons. Atsme^📞📧 02:52, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
• Support great --PetarM (talk) 14:27, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:A Boyar Wedding Feast (Konstantin Makovsky, 1883) Google Cultural Institute.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:07, 14 November 2015 (UTC)