Boat with Cossacks. Puppet, from the performance The Aeneid

Puppet made by the artist Mykola Sapozhnikov for Ivan Kotlyarevsky's play The Aeneid, staged in the Kyiv State Puppet Theater (now the Kyiv Academic Puppet Theater) in 1984. The director was Yuri Sikalo. The Cossack theme, the Ukrainian-centric nature of the work testify to a turning point in the restoration of the traditional Ukrainian puppet theater, as well as the need to expand its repertoire. The puppet of a Boat with Cossacks is on a metal rod, the boat is made of wicker. Inside are six figures of Cossacks made of rope with metal rods. Aeneas with a saber, in a red cloak and trousers.