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The painting tells the story of a real incident, the punishment by the Jewish community of the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremenets" class="extiw" title="w:Kremenets">Kremenets</a> in Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine (then part of the Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire) of a Jewish girl for her relationship with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Ukraine#Eastern_Orthodoxy" class="extiw" title="w:Religion in Ukraine">Ukrainian Orthodox</a> boy and her transition to Orthodox Christianity. She is wearing a cross on her neck.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Mykola_Pymonenko" class="extiw" title="w:en:Mykola Pymonenko"><span title="Ukrainian painter (1862-1912)">Mykola Pymonenko</span></a>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Bridgeman_Art_Library" class="extiw" title="w:en:Bridgeman Art Library"><span title="library">Bridgeman Art Library</span></a>:  Object <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bridgemanimages.co.uk/en/asset/364928">364928</a><br>