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(RUSSIA) - Cantonist Scene.. Oil on canvas. Signed in Cyrillic lower left: Valeri Sigle. 29.5 x 42.5 inches. Framed. St. Petersburg, circa 1980 Based on an early 20th-century postcard, this dramatic painting, set in 19th-century Czarist Russia, depicts the forced conscription of a young Jewish boy into the Russian military forces.