#alexei nilych kirillov

[mikhailrakitin]

pyotr, stepan, and some sharillov in color

#demons dostoyevsky #demons #the possessed #Бесы #dostoyevsky #dostoevsky #fyodor dostoyevsky #fyodor dostoevsky #fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky #Достоевский #pyotr stepanovich verkhovensky #pyotr verkhovensky #verkhovensky #alexei nilych kirillov #alexei kirillov #kirillov #ivan pavlovich shatov #ivan shatov #shatov #stepan trofimovich verkhovensky #stepan trofimovich #my art #q #lee.txt

[mohich]

kirillov and stavrogin

#alexei nilych kirillov #nikolai stavrogin #alexey kirillov #the possessed #бесы #кириллов #ставрогин #ruslit #my art #Dostoevsky

[incorrectlit]

Verkhovensky: Do you feel like you have everything necessary to preform your job?

Kirillov: I don’t have happiness.

Verkhovensky: Well, that’s not a workplace requirement.

#literature #russian lit #incorrect quotes #fyodor dostoevsky #demons #dostoevsky demons #the devils #the possessed #source: brandon rogers #pyotr stepanovich #pyotr stepanovich verkhovensky #pyotr verkhovensky #verkhovensky #alexei nilych kirillov #alexei kirillov

[plutorine]

Thoughts on Demons (2014)

this was originally going to be part of my demons (2014) thread on my twitter, but i'll just be dumping my thoughts about the series here on tumblr. i'll continue where i left off from where i closed the thread.

spoilers below the cut. there will be triggering content as well (suicide, mention of blood). don't expect this to be coherent. also i haven't read the book yet (oooh when i tell you about how desperate i am in getting a copy here in the PH), so yeah.

long read ahead.

okay. the last scene i watched last night was liza nikolaevna (and mavriky) getting beaten by the townspeople after the death of the lebyadkins due to her connection to stavrogin (and stavrogin being the main suspect of the siblings' death). did they really have to beat the poor girl? why must a woman (yet again) suffer from the misdeeds of a man HGKJDGFJGHDK

also pyotr,,, maniacally dancing in the pig pen....

man. the whole thing about shatov finally getting the chance to be a father and live with a family of his own only to be shot in the head by pyotr is just. :((( my jaw was on the floor i tell you. i was devastated and utterly wrecked.

the thing with demons (2014) is that it's on a different level of insanity than, say, c&p. c&p is depressing. demons wrecked me from start to finish. i cannot stress how many times the hairs on the back of my head stood up whenever pyotr would manipulate and rope in stavrogin in his plans.

it has the vibes of like,, trying so desperately to wash off blood from your hands but the blood just "magically" keeps on getting redder and redder and it doesn't really come off

also what the fuck was that pyotr??? mans just shot shatov in point-blank range and has the audacity to eat chicken (without washing his hands, to boot)??? like OH you going to HELL hell.

this scene with kirillov's lines:

i mentioned in the thread that i had to brush up on russian history before i read/watch demons because otherwise, it would just completely fly over my head

it was pretty interesting watching how this movement that pyotr was trying to mobilize fit the existing narrative then within the context of 19th century russian politics; demons was essentially dostoevsky "warning" of what could possibly be if people who thought like verkhovensky would get the upper hand in deciding the course of the russia's future

i admit i can't really speak about this because well, i'm not russian, but i deeply appreciate the how dostoevsky was able to weave all of this in his novel in such a way that leaves even me, a foreigner, in deep thought about what the implications of such an ideology would have on a wider context outside its country of origin

ok kirillov wtf HAHAHAHAHA ang gago niya XD

stavrogin's confession.

VILE. stavrogin you VILE, VILE, MAN. i don't have any words for it at all. raskolnikov ends up looking like a saint when i put him next to stavrogin.

on another note maksim matveev's teary-eyed face in that scene is so fucking beautiful i almost cried along with him

i seriously want to ask dostoevsky why he insists on making beautiful the characters that we're supposed to dislike/critique

heck even that notion warrants much introspection

like he's about to k-word himself but he still looks so hot? okay i need to stfu

i like the bit here with tikhon talking about revolutions and such:

this reminds me very much of my country's very own EDSA Revolution (there's EDSA Uno and Dos, but I'm talking more about EDSA Uno here because it's probably more relevant to the political state of my country rn). i won't go into depth about it, but you can check the wiki of it to get an idea of what i mean.

(they can be *gets shot*)

the ending scene. okay.

i talked about this w my twt moot and according to her, the most accepted theory is that the kid there (with dasha) is stavrogin's, and verkhovensky's reaction to seeing them there was like him getting the idea to continue his failed twisted plan, but with the kid in the place of his father. just. what the fuck man. leave that kid alone.

i was also told that this scene wasn't really in the book? yeah. so there's that.

concluding thoughts:

at this point i'm quite used to ruslit plots wrecking my mental state and subjecting me to emotions that make me want to stare at a wall, so this experience with watching demons (2014) was not as jarring as i feared it to be XD as expected, there were really some scenes that left me like "huh??? 🤨🤨", but really that's because i haven't read the book. what i plan to do is once i get the book, i'm gonna read it as i revisit the series.

also maksim matveev? yeah. that man is HOT hot. i could stare at his stavrogin all day if i could.

that's it for me! thank you to everyone who engaged with the thread, it made the experience of watching demons (2014) more enjoyable.

my next target watch on the dostoevsky adaptation list is the italian tbk film!! that or the 1968 russian one. will definitely make a live commentary thread about either on twitter as well.

#shut up rin #fyodor dostoevsky #demons (2014) #devils #the possessed #russian literature #rin's stuff: ruslit commentary #nikolai vsevolodovich stavrogin #pyotr stepanovich verkhovensky #ivan pavlovich shatov #alexei nilych kirillov #darya pavlovna shatova #lizaveta nikolaevna tushina #maksim matveev

[catcoffeeenjoyer]

Tonight I bring Fedka

Tommorow, who knows

#dostoevsky demons #fedka the convict #alexei nilych kirillov #fanart #the possessed #fyodor dostoevsky #my art #demons

[rotatiffantome]

so many gay people here call it a pride parade

#dostoevsky demons #demons dostoevsky #alexei nilych kirillov #ivan pavlovic shatov #pyotr stepanovic verkhovensky #nikolai vsievodolovich stavrogin #darya pavlovna shatov #lizaveta tushina #dostoyevski #fanart #artists on tumblr #marya lebyadkina #demons #my art

[cookiecrumbconundrum]

thinking about alexei nilych kirillov again late at night and every time I think about him I cry because he thought he was all alone and he was so so so so so scared and he really needed anyone to sit with him and care and pull him away from stavrogin but that’s the tragedy of 19th century russian novels but sometimes I lay in my bed crying and thinking about him

#I wanted to be there for him #he was just scared #he needed anyone #fyodor dostoevsky #demons dostoevsky #demons #the possessed #russian literature

[hanarinhightown]

I was tagged my @korblez , @time-traveling-machine , and my sweetest @thearchdemongreatlydisapproves thank you!!!!!!!!!

Share ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media, in no particular order, then tag/send to ten people (anon or not) 💜

1. Mass Effect - Lantar Sidonis

2. Lord of the Rings - Éowyn

3. Hades - Zagreus <3

4. Portal - GLaDOS

5. Disco Elysium - Kim Kitsuragi

6. The Left Hand of Darkness - Therem Harth rem ir Estraven

7. Dragon Age - Krem

8. Better Call Saul - Kim Wexler

9. Dostoevsky's Бесы - Alexei Nilych Kirillov

10. John Carpenter's The Thing - MacReady

Tagging @theelfmaiden @bigcheezey @transfenris-truther @aegisbane @irikahkrios @yellingaboutmasseffect @katarrinskey @hexcore-juggler @snizabelle @callista-curations but no pressure!!

[cream-and-nourishment]

looks like there is many a god hater in the dcu (dostoevsky cinematic universe)

#thank you for the compliment :) #ivan karamazov #andrei semyonovich lebezyatnikov #alexei nilych kirillov #crime and punishment #demons #the brothers karamazov #fyodor dostoevsky #i only have second hand info about ivan but here's an attempt u_u #sorry for being slow with these i was a little sick lol #my art #asks

[xillionart]

Masterpiece

Fanart vs Screenshot: Day 5 - Demons (TV 2014)

To celebrate the bicentennial of Dostoevsky’s birth, the Chinese Dostoevsky fandom is running a 11 day fanworks challenge (Lofter & Twitter)!

#fyodor dostoevsky #demons #alexei nilych kirillov #xillionart

[mikhailrakitin]

kirillov :(

#demons dostoyevsky #demons #the possessed #Бесы #dostoyevsky #dostoevsky #fyodor dostoyevsky #fyodor dostoevsky #fyodor mikhailovich dostoevsky #Достоевский #alexei nilych kirillov #alexei kirillov #kirillov #my art

[mohich]

the possessed valentine cards!

#pyotr verkhovensky #nikolai stavrogin #ivan shatov #alexei nilych kirillov #alexey kirillov #the possessed #my art #fyodor dostoevsky #ruslit #valentine day #valentine card

[readingishellalit]

Pyotr Verkhovensky: It's time for a plan B.

Kirillov: We have a plan B?

Pyotr Verkhovensky: No, but it's time for one.

#classic literature #classics #russian classics #memes #fyodor dostoevsky #incorrect quotes #russian literature #classic #crime and punishment #demons #pyotr stepanovich #pyotr verkhovensky #alexei nilych kirillov #kirillov

[wretchedvulgarian]

Demons Characters in Top Gear Quotes

Pyotor Stepanovich, about Stepan Trofimovich: Beneath this rather faded, ruined exterior, beats a heart of pure arthritis. Stavrogin: This is quite snowy. Verkhovensky: It must have snowed. Shatov: It's not an emergency. It's just time to empty your bowels. Stavrogin to Verkhovensky: Your logic, Pyotr, is different to other people's isn't it? Entirely different? Shatov: That's a very polite way of saying 'wrong'. Lizaveta: Hello, horse! I shall call you Burger. Kirillov: If he drives out of the water, I'm gonna kill myself. Shatov: Are you? Kirillov: Yea. Shatov: Fair enough. Stavrogin: Well, it was a good idea. It only had one major flaw. *points at Verkhovensky* Verkhovensky: What!?

#fyodor dostoevsky #dostoevksy #demons #demons dostoevsky #pyotr stepanovich verkhovensky #pyotr verkhovensky #nikolai vsevolodovich stavrogin #nikolai stavrogin #ivan pavlovich shatov #alexei nilych kirillov

[catcoffeeenjoyer]

Officially destroyed by one sentence from Kirillov that carried a lot of meaning

Anyways, I haven’t mentioned him yet - in the book Kirillov was said to have a brother, so I designed him and named him Anatoly (because @vostok3-ka (yes I remember) helped me with it) so here these two are

Owl are symbolic and also barn owls are silly, so that’s why they were chosen

#dostoevsky demons #alexei nilych kirillov #demons dostoevsky #fanart #my art #artists on tumblr #the possessed

[incorrectlit]

Kirillov: We should drive off a cliff, like Thelma and Louise!

Shatov: Why does everything end in a group suicide with you?

#russian lit #literature #fyodor dostoevsky #incorrect quotes #source: malcolm in the middle #alexei nilych kirillov #alexei kirillov #ivan pavlovich shatov #ivan shatov #demons #the devils #the possessed