The display of the exhibition "Sergei Shchukin's Choice. The Birth of Modern Art" at the Hermitage reproduces the hanging of the paintings in Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin's Moscow house, in the Music Room, the Pink Drawing Room, the Large Dining Room, the Cézanne Study and the Picasso Room
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
