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My Country, your Country, our World…
Ilya Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870–1873 Ilya Repin, 5 August [O.S. 24 July] 1844, Chuguyev, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire – September 29, 1930) Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870–1873...
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The Art of Ivan Bilibin, Rimsky-Korsakov & the News
The Golden Cockerell, illustrated by Yvan Bilibin The Golden Cockerell (finished in 1907 and premièred in 1909, is a fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin (6 June 1799 – 10 February 1837) Ivan Yakovlevich...
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Viktor Hartmann, Modest Mussorgsky & the News
Plan for a City Gate in Kiev, by Viktor Hartmann Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (5 May 1834, St Petersburg – 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow) was a Russian architect and painter who lived during a...
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The Art of Alexandre Benois & the News
Peter the Great Meditating the Idea of Building St. Petersburg at the Shore of the Baltic Sea, by Alexandre Benois Photo credit: Alexandre Benois, Wikipedia Alexandre or Alexander Benois (3 May...
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Nikolai Timkov’s Russian Winters
Winter in Petrovsaya, by Nikolai Timkov Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (August 12, 1912, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire – December 25, 1993, Saint Petersburg, Russia). Gallery Academicheskaya Dacha, 1972...
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Syria on my Mind
The Catskills (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In the Woods (Photo credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art) 9/11 This week, we remember the attacks of 9/11: the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and flight 93....
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Isis: a Nightmare
An Arab and his Dogs by Jean-Léon Gérôme (Photo credit: WikiArt.org) My lost post resurfaced. I added missing links to the published post, but did not change its contents. However, one of my links led...
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Turning the other cheek
Head of St James the Less by Leonardo da Vinci (Photo credit: WikiArt.org) Retaliation Once again, we are witnesses to retaliation....
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Enlightened Despotism in Russia
Catherine the Great Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias by unknown (Wiki2.org.) Enlightened Despotism We are returning to our Enlightened despots. In the Encyclopedia Britannica, Enlightened...
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Alexander Borodin, Russia’s “Five”
The Slavic Composers by Ilya Repin, 1872 (WikiArt.org.) Time flies. So I am not altogether finished a post on Sweden’s Age Liberty which began a little before Peter the Great defeated the Swedish...
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Introducing “The Fox and the Goat”
The Fox and Goat, The Æsop for Children, Milo Winter (1919) I will soon post an article about La Fontaine’s Preface to his first collection (Recueil) of Fables. He uses The Fox and the Goat as an...
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