SCENE 6 on the way to the church
Prepared linocut (50 x 32.5 cm) with grid from the TLT paint shop.
Stage with painted drop, image size: 1050 x 685 cm.
Wedding gifts:
1. wedding cake (manufacture: Christian Ladner)
2.pig on the spit (by Christian Ladner)
Katerina's husband has been given up for lost and Katerina and Sergei are dressed in their best clothes, getting ready to set off for church to be married. Sergei is looking forward to his future as master of the estate but Katerina is tormented by the memory of the crime and glances incessantly at the cellar door. While everyone is away at the wedding, a coarse, half-drunken wretch, who has noticed her looking at the cellar door, goes in to look for drink and discovers her husband's decomposing body. He rushes out to alert the police.