The works of Nikolay Nekrasov were illustrated in cheap popular prints. This type of graphics implied simplicity of images and could be called in different ways: lubok, lubochny list, poteshny list, prostovik. Such images were often printed and colored by hand.
The exhibit, which is kept in Nekrasov Museum-Reserve “Karabikha”, is a chromolithography. In this method of producing mass-produced images, a separate printing plate was used to apply each color.
“Katerinushka. Illustration for Nekrasov’s poem ‘Korobeiniki” was produced by the publishing house of the entrepreneur and educator Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin in 1901. The chromolithograph was transferred to the museum’s collection from the collection of the State Russian Museum.
The poem “Korobeiniki” was written by Nikolay Nekrasov in 1861.
In the foreground on the left in a circle is a
young couple. The young man holds the girl’s hand. The same girl is depicted on
the right, sitting in a field and grieving. In the background is a village
where a fair is taking place. The background of the painting is a meadow, a
field, field flowers and wheat heads. The image is enclosed in a black frame.
