Chaloi Leonty Oil on Paper Winter Landscape Painting, 1970 horse drawing I found a life-long domino

I found a life-long domino collector deaccessioning some cards so scooped up a few different decks

and they feature very finely incised banded designs

Made in West Germany (there is a stamp on the underside of the base)

and this painting

" (In 1929 the company outfitted Charles Lindberg for his  his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Chaloi Leonty Oil on Paper Winter Landscape Painting, 1970 horse drawing I found a life-long dominoI've gone back to the same dealer in Russia three times now to purchase paintings by Chaloi Leonty, whose estate the dealer handles; I just think he was a really good landscape painter, and Russian prices are pretty good! The other two I've just listed, featuring sea views, are not what I imagine when I think of Russia, but this wintery landscape most certainly is though it reminds me a bit of long winters in the Purple Mountains of Western Mass, too!