'The Ale-house at the Toll-bridge', 1868, (1965). Creator: Vasily Perov.

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'The Ale-house at the Toll-bridge', 1868, (1965). A Russian peasant woman sits huddled in a scarf on a sledge, waiting in the cold for her husband who is spending their meagre wages on drink in the tavern. In the distance, Tsarist eagles are silhouetted against the sunset. Painting, also known as 'The Last Tavern at the City Gates', 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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