Soviet and then Russian schoolbooks are pretty much avoiding this artworks. All of them are joined by one topic – heavy drunkenness, bullying, family violence, but mostly of course drunkenness. And despite how famous were the artist, how good are the artworks themselves, they are not included in the textbooks or art books in Russia (mainly).
Children in Old Russia (in Modern too by the way) were regularly beaten by their close ones. Even nobility kids were not excluded from this fate. Parents tried to educate kids this way. So there exist art that depict this with all reality, like this 1880 piece by Pavel .
1861. Drunk father of the family by Alexei Korzuhin.
Alexei received a gold medal from Academy of Arts in Russia for this painting. He was one of the first artists who raised this topic in the art – the topic of lack of rights of women and kids and always drunk fathers. This had been tragic reality for most Russian families of the time.
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