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Portrait of Nikolai Gogol by Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller (early 1840s) “The longer and more carefully we look at...

Mel Bochner, Money, 2015 “It is no wonder that S.’s memories of early childhood were incomparably richer than ours. For...

Yung Cheng Lin “Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith” Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 1920-21 Also: Days [ ) Faith...

Konstantin Somov, Two Masks (Pair on the Eve of the Carnival), 1930 “The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit...

Tatyana Yakovleva, 1906-1991 In the kiss of hands lips, in body tremors close to me red Colour my republics too should...

Foldout head. The anatomy of the human head and neck, 1895 . “And what kind of a liar is he...

Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy in Gaspra, Crimea, 1901 To Mikhail Osipovich Yalta, January 28, 1900 Dear Mikhail Osipovich, Tolstoy’s...

Toy Theatre . “For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator...

Anatol Petrytsky, Sketch of a male costume for the opera by G. Rossini, 1927 / Anatol Petrytsky, Prince Igor. A Sketch...

Zoo, or Letters Not About Love, 1923 ...