#the bronze horseman

[tikitania]

the bronze horseman is based on the book (depicting the 1824 great flood in st petersburg and also some deeper literary meanings etc etc i'm not very literate tbh).

also if you go watch the recording that's on youtube, you'll see maria koshkareva, sofia valiullina and yaroslavna kuprina as three out of four of the children's roles - I think they're first-years in it :) im always so amazed to see current grads being small children in HD video on youtube, i'm not used to being older than professional ballet soloists lol

OMG! They are babies! I definitely saw Koshkaryova and Valiullina, but not sure if I could identify Kuprina. For a second, I thought I saw Olga Morgulets — the child (now adult) featured in the documentary about Vaganova aspirants along with Anna Sharova.

I did a quick scrub through the video — and I'm intrigued by this ballet, but was caught off guard by the man in blackface. Why??!??! Now I'm going go back and read more about this ballet, the literary references, etc. I did see that it was inspired by a Pushkin poem of the same name. Interestingly, it was revived for the Mariinsky stage by Yuri Smeklov, who is retiring in a couple of days. He also re-constructed Paquita, and I wonder if he will devote more of his time to restringing the classics for he Mariinsky or choreographing more contemporary projects, which he just did with Daria Ionova. Either way, I wish him luck!

#ballet #mariinsky ballet #russian ballet #baby koshkareyva #baby valiullina #the bronze horseman #pushkin

[emmalovesfitzloved]

feeling super babygirl rn

felt super brave today and emailed my favourite author of all time on her public work email if there is ever an option to email out my hardbacks to sign. her signed store has since shut down so i don't want to be spoiled cuz i already have 1 novel signed by her but can you imagine if i had the hardbacks i had since i was a teen signed by the truest and greatest female romance author of all time?

i'll keep you guys posted if this ever happens :') or if by chance she does reply. what an amazing christmas gift to myself it would be :')

#the bronze horseman #paullina simons #pretty please God

[tatianaandalexanderinmyheart]

"Tatiana sprang into his open arms, and Alexander, lifting her off her feet with the force of his embrace, couldn’t hug her tight enough, couldn’t breathe in enough of her. She flung her arms around his neck, burying her face in his bearded cheek. Dry sobs racked her entire body."

International Hug Day

#the bronze horseman #the bronze horseman trilogy #paullina simons #paullinasimons #tatiana&alexander #books fanart #book edit #tatiana and alexander #epiclovestory #epic love #romance #romance books #romance novels #lazarevo #international hug day #internationalhugday #books aesthetics #romantic books #book aesthetic

[inlovewithquotes]

There are some battles, no matter how much you don't want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

- The Bronze Horseman

#literature #book quotes #books & libraries #quotes #life quotes #fighting back #battles #paullina simons #the bronze horseman

[meinalauss]

Don't TELL ME I just sat through 1000 pages of ww2 HORROR just for THAT ending.

There's 2 more (long ass) books in the trilogy but if they're going to just rip my heart out and stomp on it as much as the first one, I may as well not bother 😩

I'm gonna go read some fluff and feel sorry for myself instead 🤧

#like i know reality is fuckin bleak but thats why i read for an escape #DO NOT INJECT TRAGEDY INTO MY MF ESCAPE MAN #the bronze horseman #tatiana and alexander

[vizuart]

#art #paintings #museum #art pieces #tumblr art #Henriette Gudin (1825 – 1892) - The Bronze Horseman [1800 x 1211]

[afrotumble]

Bini Edo horseman sculpture

#west africa #benin bronzes #horses #horseman #warrior #arts #culture

[lemuseum]

#Henriette Gudin (1825 - 1892) - The Bronze Horseman

[heatherofthemoore]

Walking home in Gimbi

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it . . . and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied . . . and it is all one.

~ M.F.K Fisher, 'The Art of Eating'.

#quotes #ethiopia #reminds me of another quote from the bronze horseman #“Love is when they're hungry you feed them. Love is knowing when they're hungry.”

[llovelymoonn]

hi! can i request a web weave on telling awful truths? how we lie or dont tell the truth because we want so badly to hold on to what we have? and the guilt that comes with hiding awful, dangerous, shameful truths for the sake of your own peace, for the happiness of others? i have an awful secret i cant tell my friends because it would break up our group and im afraid no one will believe me and ive been really struggling with it </3

victoria hannan kokomo \\ david wohjan the falling hour: "truth-taking stare" \\ victoria hannan kokomo \\ paullina simons the bronze horseman \\ afaa michael weaver city of eternal springs: "truth" \\ victoria hannan kokomo

kofi

#asks #knivez4teeth #this is from a while ago but hope you're doing well my love #mine #my webweaving #webweaving #web weaving #webweave #web weave #web #webs #ww #parallel #victoria hannan #kokomo #if you couldn't tell what kokomo is about haha #on truth #on self #on life #parallels #intertextuality #compilations #compilation #intertext #comparative #comparatives #parallelism #paullina simons #the bronze horseman #afaa michael weaver

[random-brushstrokes]

Vasily Surikov - The Bronze Horseman (1870)

#Vasily Surikov #russian art #cityscape #1870s

[pearlcaddy]

locklyle + the bronze horseman [insp]

#lockwood & co #lockwood and co #lockwoodandcoedit #anthony lockwood #anthonylockwoodedit #lucy carlyle #lucycarlyleedit #locklyle #locklyleedit #tvedit #smallscreensource #cinematv #userbelin #pearlcaddyedit #pearlcaddy l&co #idk i debated the text placement in the second gif a lot #but i really enjoyed that the text is only visible when their foreheads are together

[petaltexturedskies]

I forget the world; and in the sweet silence I'm calmed by my imagination sweetly, and poetry wakes in me;

Alexander Pushkin, from "A Fragment of Autumn" in The Bronze Horseman; Selected Poems

#alexander pushkin

[tatianaandalexanderinmyheart]

"It was a perfect day. For five minutes there was no war, and it was just a glorious Sunday in a Leningrad June. When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street." 🌹🚎🍦

June 22, 1941

#thebronzehorseman #tatiana&alexander #tatiana and alexander #paullina simons #romantic books #books aesthetics #book edit #paullinasimons #the bronze horseman #booklover #epiclovestory #epic love

[venustapolis]

The Bronze Horseman (Henriette Gudin, 1825 - 1892)

#art #painting #Henriette Gudin

[meinalauss]

I'm 1/3 of the way through The Bronze Horseman and I'm so fucking mad I could throw my phone out the window.

Somebody who has read this monstrosity tell me it gets less infuriating. Does he ever stop fucking her sister right in goddamn front of her? I'd poison his pirozhki 😤

#i'm seriously not ok #how am i going to get to sleep like this #the bronze horseman #paullina simons