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Demonstration, Alexander Monin, 1924
Demonstration, Alexander Monin, 1924. From the exhibition “VKhUTEMAS 100. School of the Avant-Garde” at the Museum of Moscow
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Alexander Gerasimov and other artists painted Stalin in his coffin in the Hall of Columns
As for painters and leaders: when Stalin lay in state in the Hall of Columns, Alexander Gerasimov (1881-1963) sat beside the coffin with his sketch box, drawing a portrait of the Generalissimo. Other artists stood nearby with their easels, and all of them painted the immortal Stalin in his
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Wikipedia quotes a very vivid recollection of the People's Artist Isaak Brodsky by Korney Chukovsky, who met him in 1926 to talk about his teacher Ilya Repin: “…Ah, how sumptuously he lives — and how tediously! Already in the hall hang portraits and littl
Wikipedia quotes a very vivid recollection of the People's Artist Isaak Brodsky by Korney Chukovsky, who met him in 1926 to talk about his teacher Ilya Repin: “…Ah, how sumptuously he lives — and how tediously! Already in the hall hang portraits and little portraits of Lenin, fabricated by
Art · People · Saint Petersburg
Isaac Brodsky and His Monumental Paintings of Lenin and Party History
Isaac Israilevich Brodsky (1883-1939) was one of the foremost, most acclaimed and most fame-showered creators of paintings about the life of Lenin and of canvases on the history of the Party. To his brush belong such monumental works as “Lenin Addressing the Workers of the Putilov Factory Rally
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A handsome goat, to be sure, but I would not say the figurine looks alive
A handsome goat, to be sure, but I would not say the figurine looks alive. And how wearisome is that ubiquitous addendum, “price in DMs”. Whom, pray, are we hiding from, dear comrades?
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There is a recollection by Vyacheslav Molotov of how, and how much, he was paid in the years of his political activity
There is a recollection by Vyacheslav Molotov of how, and how much, he was paid in the years of his political activity. The account was taken down in the 1970s, when Molotov was already past eighty, from his own words by the Soviet writer Feliks Chuev, and published in the
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Fresco of Iphigenia at Aulis from the house of a tragic poet in Pompeii
Iphigenia in Aulis. A fresco showing the lovely Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, being carried to the altar of Artemis. Agamemnon had offended Artemis by killing her golden hind, and she sent a calm upon the Greek fleet fitted out for Troy. In order to set sail at last,
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Napoleon and Jewish emancipation in Europe, reforms and restrictions
Do you know why Heine so loved Napoleon? Besides the spirit of the French Revolution, with whose grandeur the name of Bonaparte was invariably associated, it was precisely thanks to Napoleon that the movement for Jewish emancipation rose throughout Europe. He is often called the liberator of the Jews. What
Heine’s “The Two Grenadiers” in Music by Schumann and Wagner and in Fet’s Translation
Heinrich Heine's poem "The Two Grenadiers" was enormously popular in its day, and was set to music by Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner. It has been translated many times; the best-known Russian versions are those of Fet and Gumilev. The influence of "The Two
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Two Grenadiers, a painting by the Polish artist Wojciech Kossak (1856-1942)
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A very clear article from 1998, still relevant today, "The Humiliation and Dignity of Man": the struggle for freedom is always a search for dignity, while humiliation is the usurpers' answer
A very clear article from 1998, still relevant today, "The Humiliation and Dignity of Man": the struggle for freedom is always a search for dignity, while humiliation is the usurpers' answer. But in the end, through thorns and malice, good prevails. Amen
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