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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 274179, member: 33"]Wow, I love it! Before reading all of the replies I did think it had something to do with Russia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was trying to figure out where the original painting might be. So far I found this attribution in Wikimedia Commons:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>"Oleg at his horse's remains. Illustration to "Lay of the wise Oleg" by A.S. Pushkin, State Literature Museum, Moscow"</i></p><p><br /></p><p>So it was used as a book illustration. I'm not sure whether the museum cited is holder of the original or not. I may look more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 274179, member: 33"]Wow, I love it! Before reading all of the replies I did think it had something to do with Russia. I was trying to figure out where the original painting might be. So far I found this attribution in Wikimedia Commons: [I]"Oleg at his horse's remains. Illustration to "Lay of the wise Oleg" by A.S. Pushkin, State Literature Museum, Moscow"[/I] So it was used as a book illustration. I'm not sure whether the museum cited is holder of the original or not. I may look more.[/QUOTE]
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