Group sculpture “Fancy riding Lezgins”

Note

The original name of the pattern was “Fancy riding”. A rifle is missing from the hands of the upper fancy riding Lezgin. One of the most popular and widely replicated plastic art compositions of a famous Saint Petersburg sculptor Ye. A. Lansere, representing the ethnographical movement in the Russian style of the second half of the 19th century. It was cast in iron at the Kasli Foundry after the mid-1870s using Lansere's pattern of 1874 (with the sculptor’s last name on the earth of the stand or without it). Replication of the model in other materials, including patinated bronze, was not registered in museum or private collections, which indicates that the Kasli Foundry had the right of ownership to Lansere’s designer pattern. After certain time, the sculpture was manufactured in two versions, a large-sized and a small-sized version, after a factory molder V. F. Torokin made a reduction of the large sculpture in the early 1890s. There is an inscription on the earth of the stand of the reduced pattern and, respectively, the cast iron casting: “раб. В.Торокинъ” (a work by V.Torokin). In the Soviet period, the casting of the “Fancy riding Lezgins” in two sizes was resumed at the Kasli Foundry in the late 1950s - early 1960s.