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# Remember how in "Kavkazskaya plennitsa" they called bride abduction a beautiful custom?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/pomnite-kak-v-kavkazskoi-plennitse-skazali-chto-pokhishchenie-nevesty-krasivyi-obychai/
- Published: 2017-11-12T15:51:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:45:00.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Almaty, The East, Art, Cinema, Observations, Ethnography

Remember how in "Kavkazskaya plennitsa" \[Kidnapping, Caucasian Style\] they called bride abduction a beautiful custom? I stand before Kasteev's 1937 painting "Bride Abduction" and cannot see what is beautiful here; it is simply dreadful!