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# "1918 in Petrograd" and "Our Lady of Tenderness Towards Evil Hearts", Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/1918-god-v-petrograde-i-bogomater-umilenie-zlykh-serdets-kuzma-petrov-vodkin/
- Published: 2024-06-19T08:04:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T09:20:01.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Books, Saint Petersburg

*Beauty*

*These proud brows of Vincian Madonnas* 
*I have met more than once on Russian peasant women,* 
*On young Ryazan wives, bent double with toil,* 
*Threshing sheaves on the threshing-floor at the crack of dawn.*

*On tousle-headed boys who snare rooks* 
*And carry them in the sleeve of a father's sheepskin coat,* 
*I have seen those blue stars of eyes* 
*That look out from the inspired paintings of Vasnetsov.*

*From the high road they have passed onto a strip of canvas,* 
*Those barefoot Repin barge-haulers...* 
*Now I understand that all beauty* 
*Is only a ray of that sun whose name is Russia!*

*Literal translation*

Verses by Dmitry Kedrin, 5 September 1942

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