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His work has since been influenced by a mixture of nostalgia for his childhood holidays with his grandmother in one such village and his sympathy for the very difficult life of the villagers which persisted at least until the date these works were first designed in 1982. Other influences have been religion and Russian literature, particularly the work of the so-called 'country writers' and their empathy with the peasants. His work has a strong illustrative and narrative vein, often themed around children's stories and folklore. These two prints come from a group of four depicting the Seasons and suggest poverty and the daily struggle to survive, but at the same time they have a kind of romantic lyricism which comes through the inclusion of religious iconography, images from nature, such as birds, trees and flowers, and the general disposition and weaving together of individual scenes to make up the whole.","physicalDescription":"Print, etching and drypoint, 'Winter'.  Centre image: four children lying under an outspread coat, only their heads visible; above and behind: wooden shacks, three figures pushing a snowball uphill, a harpy; below:  a chopping block and axe, a stooping man seen through a low arch, a pile of logs, an icon of a saint; agricultural tools; a woman spinning; to the right; a calf, a goat, a monkey , a bird two figures on a sled; to left: horse pulling a sled of wood, mittens.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Zabirokhin, Boris","id":"A13033"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"etching","id":"AAT53241"},{"text":"drypoint","id":"AAT53228"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Etching and drypoint on paper","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"},{"text":"Children & Childhood","id":"THES48980"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006BK2868"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"MP","shelf":"283","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Russia","id":"x29110"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1998","earliest":"1993-01-01","latest":"2002-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.1060-2003","id":"O100915"},"association":"Set"}],"creditLine":"Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"36.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"plate","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"27.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"plate","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"inscribed in pencil in the artist's hand in cyrillic script below the image from left to right with the title, and the letters C3 and C4 at centre the edition number as 7/10 (IV) and to the right with signature and the date 82-98.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"The letters C3 and C4  indicate that this is an intaglio process from metal. C3 is etching C4 is drypoint. This method of indicating techniques by a letter and number code is widespread in Russia and Eatern Europe. Some Polish and Russian catalogues print the codes at the back for reference. The editon number 7/10(VI) indicates that this is the 7th print within a batch of 10 and that this is the sixth batch of ten that has been made. Many Russians adopted this system of spreading the printing of an edition over a long period of time.This was a rational response to the irregular availability of ink and paper.\r\n\r\nThe double date indicates that the suite 'The Seasons' was originally produced in 1982 but the 98 probabaly refers to the date of this particular 'batch' ( see note above)."},{"content":"Blind stamped with a chop mark in the form of two cyrillic letters within a circle in lower right margin.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"The chop mark is comprised of the artist's initials in the Cyrillic alphabet."}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Print, etching and drypoint, symbolising Winter, Boris Zabirokhin, Russia, about 1993","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"there are four prints, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, of which the V&A has two, Spring: E.1060-2003 and Winter: E.1061-2003","productionType":{"text":"Limited edition","id":"THES48862"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Russia","id":"x29110"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"figures","id":"AAT189808"},{"text":"icons","id":"AAT33945"},{"text":"sleds","id":"AAT216402"},{"text":"harpies","id":"x38532"},{"text":"horses","id":"x34864"},{"text":"peasants","id":"AAT230852"},{"text":"shacks","id":"AAT5515"},{"text":"snow","id":"AAT55381"},{"text":"axes","id":"AAT24664"},{"text":"cattle","id":"x35205"},{"text":"goats","id":"x30394"},{"text":"monkey","id":"x30136"},{"text":"birds","id":"x35043"},{"text":"coats","id":"AAT46143"}],"contentConcepts":[{"text":"winter","id":"AAT133101"}],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.1061-2003"],"accessionNumberNum":"1061","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2003,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"7/10 (VI)","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-15","recordCreationDate":"2004-09-03","availableToBook":false}}