Illustrations to the rare émigré publication “There! Pictures of the Soviet Paradise” of the early 1920s.
The new life in Bolshevik Petrograd is depicted by the authors with scrawny cows in city courtyards, starving people in a canteen, unbuttoned sailors and their drunken girlfriends from the Cheka, and workers sleeping in the streets
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
