Talashkino

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Talashkino ( Russian Талашкино ) is a small Russian village 18 km south of the city of Smolensk . It is known for its artist colony .

history

In 1893 Princess Tenischewa bought her friend Princess Ekaterina Konstantinovna Swjatopolk-Tschetwertinskaja, Talashkino, as a place for an artists' colony to promote Russian folk culture. With the help of artists from the Abramzewo artists' colony , Princess Tenischewa had a manor house built in which she set up workshops for ceramics and wood carvings as well as a school for lace making. The workshop was headed by Sergei Wassiljewitsch Malyutin from 1900 to 1903 , and in 1901 a small wooden house was built according to his plans in the old Russian style. The architect Viktor Suslow built the Holy Spirit Church in which Nicholas Roerich created the frescoes and the famous Jesus mosaic above the entrance.

In 1895 Princess Tenischewa provided a school with a kitchen, dining and sleeping rooms for the children in the area, with orphans having priority and being entertained by the Princess.

Talaschkino was a center of Russian artistic life comparable to Abramzewo until 1914. In 1911 Stravinsky traveled to Russia and also visited Talaschkino, where he collected material for his ballet Le sacre du printemps , wrote down folk songs and with the set designer Nicholas Roerich the story of a Russian spring festival Trunks designed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What we know about Mary Tenisheva? A female patron (accessed August 7, 2015)
  2. ↑ a b Christine Hamel: Russia: from the Volga to the Neva: Moscow and the Golden Ring, St. Petersburg and Karelia, Novgorod, Pskow and Kazan . DuMont Art Guide, DuMont, Cologne 1998, p. 384, ISBN 3-7701-4300-0 .
  3. ^ Gennady Vasilyev: Viennese Modernism: Discourses and Reception in Russia . Frank & Timme, Berlin 2015, p. 53, ISBN 978-3-7329-0137-1 .
  4. ↑ Martin Wörner: Amusement and instruction: folk culture at the world exhibitions of 1851 - 1900 . Waxmann Verlag , Münster 1998, p. 276, ISBN 3-89325-668-7 .
  5. ↑ Zeit Online 2013 No. 21: Ballet "Le Sacre du Printemps" Fever, Sex and Future , p. 2/3 (accessed on August 7, 2015)

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