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In Russian folk tales, Baba Yaga can supply Ivan the Fool or Ivan Tsarevich with a flying carpet or some other magical gifts (e.g., a ball that rolls in front of the hero showing him the way or a towel that can turn into bridge). Such gifts help the hero to find his way "beyond thrice-nine lands, in the thrice-ten kingdom".

In 1880, the rich industrialist Savva Mamontov commissioned Viktor Vasnetsov to illustrate a folk talk about Ivan and the Firebird. The painting represents Ivan returning home after capturing the Firebird, which he keeps in a cage. Ivan is riding the flying carpet in the early morning mist. This work was Vasnetsov's first attempt at illustrating Russian folk tales and inaugurated a famous series of paintings on the themes drawn from Russian folklore. When exhibited at the 8th exhibition of the Peredvizhniki, the painting was panned by leading critics as a commercially motivated betrayal of realism and return to the aesthetics of Romanticism. On the other hand, it was enthusiastically received by the Slavophile artists from the Abramtsevo art colony.

Creator/Artist
Name Vasnetsov, Viktor Mikhailovich
Alternative names Виктор Михайлович Васнецов, de:Wiktor Michailowitsch Wasnezow
Date of birth/death 1848 1926/27
Location of birth/death
English: Vyatka Province
Русский: Вятская Губерния
Deutsch: Lopjal (Gouvernement Wjatka, heute Bezirk Kirow)
English: Moscow
Русский: Москва
Deutsch: Moskau
Work location
English: Moscow, Kiev (St. Vladimir Cathedral)
Русский: Москва, Киев (Собор Святого Владимира)
Deutsch: Moskau, Kiew (Wladimir-Kathedrale)

Viktor Vasnetsov. The Flying Carpet (1880). Oil, canvas. 165x297 sm. On exhibit at the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum.

And additionally life+70, since the artist died in 1926.

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