A Fresco with the Face of Dostoevsky Has Appeared on the Wall of the Augusto Righi Technical and Industrial Institute in the Western Suburbs of Naples

The mural is the work of the Naples-born street artist Jorit, known to the Russian public for his mural with the face of Yury Gagarin on the firewall of a twenty-storey building in Odintsovo.

The portrait of Dostoevsky has been painted over a text taken from Pier Paolo Pasolini's satirical film «Uccellacci e uccellini» [The Hawks and the Sparrows]. The choice of Dostoevsky is deeply symbolic, given the recent ban on a course about Fyodor Dostoevsky himself at the University of Milan-Bicocca

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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

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

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A Fresco with the Face of Dostoevsky Has Appeared on the Wall of the Augusto Righi Technical and Industrial Institute in the Western Suburbs of Naples

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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

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Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s