The painting portrays an amusing game typically played on the last day of shrovetide. A small town would be built from snow and ice. One group would guard the town while the other attacked. Object Type: painting. Genre: genre art. Date: 1891. Dimensions: height: 1,560 mm (61.4 in) ; width: 2,820 mm (111 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Russian Museum. SurikovSnowFortress detail1
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