Let the impossible become possible, let everything distant become closer, and let everything that seems so difficult be solved beautifully and easily ...
F.M. Dostoevsky …
The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty-stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.
Yuri Borisovich Mogilevsky is a Soviet artist, born in Rostov-on-Don, has lived in Moscow since 1928. From 1945 to 1952 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts. Participant of art exhibitions since 1956. The famous graphic portrait of Mayakovsky of his work decorates the facade of the Mayakovsky Theater as an emblem. Known as a monumentalist, Moscow skyscrapers are decorated with ceramics made according to his sketches. Portraits of A.S. Pushkin, F.M. Dostoevsky, L.N. Tolstoy, N.V. Gogol, Mikhoels, written by Yuri Mogilevsky, entered the classics of Russian graphics. Author of illustrations for "Twelve Chairs" by Ilf and Petrov, "And the day lasts longer than a century..." H. Aitmatov, graphic series "Songs of the Bible" and "Catherine". From 1954 to 1958 he worked in the Agitplakat workshop. He was the chief artist of the Theater magazine. From 1959 to 1961, he worked at the Combine of Graphic Arts. The artist's works are in the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin, State Museum of V.V. Mayakovsky.
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Vladimir Makovsky - Scene at the cafe Dominic in St. Petersburg (1897)
The first Russian cafe-restaurant, opened in May 1841 at 24 Nevsky Prospect by "pastry shop master" Dominique Ritz Aport, a native of Switzerland, "for the satisfaction of people of class". The restaurant was famous for its fine cuisine and reasonable prices (the menu offered tea, coffee, chocolate, mulled wine, beefsteak), and enjoyed wide popularity with amateurs playing billiards, dominoes, checkers and chess (M.I. Chigorin played there).
The public was offered Russian and foreign newspapers. Daily, up to 1,500 people dined at Dominic; among its regular customers were F.M. Dostoevsky and D.I. Mendeleev (habitues called themselves Dominicans). Dominic was depicted in works by M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, A. P. Chekhov and other writers; its interior is captured in drawings by I.E. Repin.
In 1917, Dominic was closed down, and from the 1920s an ice-cream parlour was located on its premises (nick-named Frog Pool in the 1960s due to its green sofa upholstery). (source)
Hi, i heard you are a big fan of F.M. Dostoevsky. He is also one of my favorites. After reading Karamazov Brothers I found out, what quinxes from TG re very much resembles Dmitriy, Ivan and Alesha. Like, Mustuki is obviously Dmitry torn apart between her worst tendencies simmilar to her "father" and sympathetic heart. Urie is skeptical and constatly dissatisfied with life like Ivan, and Saiko faithul and optimistic like Alesha. What do you think? Would be a pleasure to read meta from you.
YAY another Dos fan!!!
Hmm, that’s interesting! I do agree about the parallels to an extent, but personality wise, Mucchan is very much not like Dmitri... I would compare him more to Smerdyakov (the fourth Karamazov brother!) even insofar as well... cats are concerned. Yet, what you point out is true as well. Perhaps Mucchan is actually a combination of Dmitri and Smerdyakov, because there is definitely the father issue and sympathetic heart that are lacking in Smerdyakov’s character.
As for Urie and Ivan... I laughed because Ivan’s love story is very similar to Urie’s! Much like Ivan (and Katerina) he refuses to acknowledge that he loves Mutsuki until--well, the story doesn’t tell us if he ever did. But in an ideal character arc for him he would/should have told Mutsuki in the end, when it was almost too late. It was indeed almost too late for Ivan and Katerina, and the story also ends with us not knowing if Ivan will survive his illness, but knowing that Katerina is by his side.
As for Saiko and Alyosha... mmm, well Saiko’s a NEET and Alyosha’s a monk at first. (Does this make Hsiao Lise? Aura or Kaneki, Grushenka?) They both choose to emphasize their love for those who are hurting in their family when no one else will. Alyosha’s a little more proactive as a character than Saiko is, but still, they’re kind of the heart of the group.
Going off of that, both “trios” of characters do fall into traditional trio characterizations: For alchemical story divisions, Saiko and Alyosha are heart, Urie and Ivan are mind, and Dmitri and Mutsuki are body. In psychoanalytic theory Mutsuki and Dmitri are still parallels are represent the id, in that they both give in to their basest desires; Urie and Ivan are the superegos, in that they focus on rules and society; Saiko and Alyosha are ego, in that they mediate between the two. (You can also argue that Fyodor Karamazov is id, Smerdyakov is superego, and all three brothers are ego in another respect.)
This was fun! Hilariously, I dreamed about the Quinx last night, so I enjoyed your ask!