![Mykola Pymonenko - Victim of Fanaticism [c.1899]](http://farm1.staticflickr.com/708/22585369220_86ae14d1fc_o.jpg)
Mykola Pymonenko (Priorka, March 9, 1862 - Kiev, March 26, 1912) was a Russian painter. A number of Pimonenko's paintings are, in fact, generalised portraits which are the embodiment of a popular ideal of the working man. The artist also turned to the theme of peasant labour, depicting typical scenes from everyday life against the backdrop of a landscape. The painting tells a story about the real incident - punishment by the Jewish community in Kremenets in Little Russia (now Ternopil Province, Ukraine) of a Jewish girl for her relationship with an Orthodox boy and her transition to Christianity. She wears a cross on her neck.
[Fine Arts Museum, Kharkiv - Oil on canvas, 180 x 224 cm]