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This is a rare example of an historical theme in the art of Leon Wyczółkowski. The painting depicts Maryna Mniszech and her two-year-old son, Tsarevich Ivan, hiding in the snow from the army of the newly elected Tsar Michael Romanov. Ivan was the son of False Dmitry II and was nicknamed “Ivashka the Little Thief”. Wyczółkowski painted the first version of this subject (now lost) in 1877, when he ...