RUSSIAN

•    Original Title: Девочка с персиками. Портрет В.С.Мамонтовой (Girl With Peaches)  
•   By  SEROV, Valentin 
• Date: 1887
• Style: Impressionism
• Genre: portrait
• Media: oil, canvas

Synthetic image of radiant happiness having sat down for a fleeting moment at the table, the girl turns her tanned face with lively dark eyes to the spectator. In a moment and she will jump up and run though the rooms, filling them with merry laughter. Her charm is continuously changing, constantly moving. The sun beams piercing the room are reflected in blue patches on her pink blouse, and in pink patches on the tablecloth. Sparkling light reflected on the polished furniture conveys a feeling of a luminous, joyous, cloudless world, a world remote from the frustration and suffering.

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• Figure of a Bull 
• Archaeological Site: Maikop Barrow 
• Material : Gold

In the early 20th century, researchers established the existence of a local Maykop animal style in the artifacts found. This style was seen as the prototype for animal styles of later archaeological cultures: the Maykop animal style is more than a thousand years older than the Scythian, Sarmatian and Celtic animal styles.
The Maykop people tended to live sedentary lives on artificial terrace complexes in the mountains. The terraces were built around the fourth millennium BC and all subsequent cultures used them for agricultural purposes. The vast majority of pottery found on the terraces are from the Maykop period, the rest from the Scythian and Alan period. The Maykop terraces are among the most ancient in the world, but they are little studied. The longevity of the terraces (more than 5000 years) allows us to consider their builders unsurpassed engineers and craftsmen.