'The Major's Courtship', or 'He Improves his Situation', 1848, (1965). Creator: Pavel Andreevich Fedotov.

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'The Major's Courtship', or 'He Improves his Situation', 1848, (1965). A merchant's daughter, wearing an elaborate flounced and layered dress, prepares to meet the major waiting in the next room. Painting, also known as 'Matchmaking of the Major', in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]

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