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#meiko kaji

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Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931) Giacomo Lanfranchi (по другой версии Virgilio )

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Salai (Gian Giacomo Caprotti, 1480 - 1524) Saint Jean-Baptiste

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John Bauer (1882-1918) illustrations for “Agneta and the Sea King,” by Helena Nyblom (1843-1926), c. 1910-11.  

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Belehrung (Instruction) by Sergius Hruby, 1935

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Young Man in a Suit, by F. Holland Day, 1906.

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AUTHOR OF THE DAY:

Anna Akhmatova

Born on this date June 23, Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova was born Anna Gorenko into an upper-class family in Odessa, the Ukraine. Her interest in poetry began in her youth, but when her father found out about her aspirations, he told her not to shame the family name by becoming a “decadent poetess”. He forced her to take a pen name, and she chose the last name of her maternal great-grandmother. 

Her son, Lev, was arrested in 1949 and held in jail until 1956. To try to win his release, Akhmatova wrote poems in praise of Stalin and the government, but it was of no use. Later she requested that these poems not appear in her collected works. She began writing and publishing again in 1958, but with heavy censorship. 

Though Akhmatova was frequently confronted with official goverment opposition to her work during her lifetime, she was deeply loved and lauded by the Russian people, in part because she did not abandon her country during difficult political times. Her most accomplished works, Requiem (which was not published in its entirety in Russia until 1987) and Poem Without a Hero, are reactions to the horror of the Stalinist Terror, during which time she endured artistic repression as well as tremendous personal loss.

Akhmatova also translated the works of Victor Hugo, Rabindranath Tagore, Giacomo Leopardi, and various Armenian and Korean poets, and she wrote memoirs of Symbolist writer Aleksandr Blok, the artist Amedeo Modigliani, and fellow Acmeist Osip Mandelstam. In 1964 she was awarded the Etna-Taormina prize and an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in 1965.Two years before her death at the age of 76, Akhmatova was chosen president of the Writers’ Union. Akhmatova died in Leningrad, where she had spent most of life, in 1966.

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Emmanuelle Seigner

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Vaslav Nijinsky in "Till Eulenspiegel"

#vaslav nijinsky #вацлав нижинский

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Дракула Брэма Стокера (1992)

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Иван Грозный, Федор Басманов (фильм “Иван Грозный” 1944)

#Грозный #Басманов #Михаил Кузнецов #Николай Черкасов

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#Блок

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Nude youth with laurel wreath and lyre (Orpheus), by F. Holland Day (1907).

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Young man in black by Fred Holland Day (1903).

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F. Holland Day, Youth with laurel wreath, 1907.