Vintage Easter Greeting Card with Roosters and Hens in Egg

The background is a simple, tasteful void—which makes the foregound absurdity even more pronounced. Somebody at the turn-of-the-century Russian greeting card industry looked at the miracle of life and thought, 'yes, but what if we crammed three adult chickens AND a baby chick into one egg?' The giant egg — inexplicably tied with a ribbon bow, because apparently 'Holy Resurrection' is best communicated via gift wrapping — has split open to reveal a rooster and two hens peering out from the top half, while a fluffy yellow chick makes its own separate escape hatch at the bottom. Surrounded by a tasteful ring of purple violets and signed 'Поздравляю с праздником Св. Пасхи' (Happy Holy Easter, for the non-Cyrillic-literate among us), this card asks the eternal theological question: which came first, the chicken, or the chicken's entire extended family living inside a single egg?