PARMEN ZABELLO Ermak (?-1585, Russian Cossack warlord under Ivan the Terrible, Siberia enslaver) Bronze sculpture, signed in Cyrillic “Забелла”, marked: Kasli factory, dated 1901, Russian imperial seal, casting master-G. Permin, 18,5" (46 cm) Another similar copy - in State Russian Museum, Petersburg (Скульптура XVIII – начало ХХ века. Государственный Русский Музей, Catalog, Leningrad, Iskusstvo, 1988, #395, p.64, illustrated) Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, Russian sale, 16.04.2008, lot 548 (illustrated in the catalog)
