Blue Bird (Bird Sirin)
Sergey Solomko (Russian, 1867-1928)
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Parisienne by Sergey Solomko
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WW1 Postcard - Romania "Les provinces martyres" by Sergey Solomko
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"Sirin" aka "Blue Bird" by Russian painter and illustrator Sergey Solomko (1867-1928)
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Sergey Sergeyevich Solomko - Witch.
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LORD OF THE RINGS + Art references
Albert Lynch - Jeanne d'Arc, 1903
Sergey Solomko | Nastasya Korolevichna ( Настасья Королевична)
VIOLET OAKLEY - Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan book cover, c. 1910.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Day Dream (1880)
Theodor von der Beek | Ophelia , 1901
Herbert G Schmalz | - Zenobia's last look on Palmyra, 1888
Leon Francois Comerre | Girl with a Golden Wreath
Thomas Cooper Gotch | Destiny
Gaston Bussière | Femme à la couronne: la princesse Celte , 1911
Romaine Brooks | Femme Avec des Fleurs, 1912.
Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun | Portrait of Theresia, Countess Kinsky, 1793
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale | The Lover's World, 1905
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In Slavic mythology a Sirin is a bird woman generally associated with benevolence, likely introduced into Ukraine and Russia and much of Eastern Europe by the Persians. When birds flew south for the winter, it was thought Sirins flew south too, to a mystic land near the Euphrates where souls go after death.
A Sirin can be just about any type of bird with a woman's head, sometimes more angel-like or human with feathered tail and wings. Sirins live in apple trees of Paradise, or in Eden, or in a forest on the periphery of Eden. They sing beautifully, and this is a call to souls of the newly dead, so that they may find their way to Paradise.
Only people who have known happiness can hear the Sirin sing, and it is like a premonition of heavenly bliss.
In some legends Sirin is not a class of creature, but is the name of a single birdwoman, and she has such sisters as Alkonost who can sing away all memory bringing peace to souls that were grieving over their release from the living world; Gamayun from an eastern paradise whose songs in an angelic language awaken prophetic abilities and divine wisdom; Raróg the fire-falcon similar to the Phoenix; and Stratim the mother of all birds and the cause of storms far at sea where she dwells.
Blue Bird, Sergey Solomko (1867-1928)
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"Boyaryshnya and young boyar" (1911)
Sergey Solomko (1867-1928)
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The Imperial couple Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra.
The nearly 400 guests arrived in bejeweled 17th-century style costumes, created from designs by artist Sergey Solomko, after consulting closely with historical experts. Court ladies wore dresses embroidered with precious stones and kokoshniks (head-dresses) adorned with the finest family jewels, while the men donned richly decorated caftans and boyar-style fur hats. For the Romanov costume ball, guests took 38 original royal items of the 17th century from the Armory in Moscow to use in this 1903 extravaganza.
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"The Head Of The Roman Youth” (detail) by Sergey Solomko (1867–1928). Russian Imperial painter, watercolorist, illustrator and designer.
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Blue Bird (Bird Sirin) by Sergey Solomko
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