#kolya krasotkin

[nikolajrostovs]

i took my little friends and i put them all in a line and this what i call a lineup

[karamazovian-mess]

kolya krasotkin

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

Kolya & Ilyusha

Ivan & Pavel

[mochalkaaaaa]

[wretchedvulgarian]

What Dostoevsky Characters Are Doing for Valentine’s Day

Dunya and Razumikhin: If Raz is planning, then they’re doing the classics: a romantic dinner, a walk in the park, maybe a show. If Dunya is planning then they’re going to an underground concert and then going home to eat their weight in chocolate

Sonya and Raskolnikov: Sonya would assume that Rodya is not interested in celebrating because it definitely doesn’t seem like his thing so she probably wouldn’t even bring it up. But the day of he would totally bring home flowers and maybe give her some jewelry (procured completely legally he swears) because he canonically loves giving her gifts he can’t help it. Then they stay in and watch movies and fall asleep on the sofa

Grushenka and Mitya: Mitya has ambition and love enough for a firework display but the funds for half a glow stick so no matter what he does for valentine’s he would feel like it wasn’t enough. Though she has a reputation for greed, Grusha actually loves a romantic gesture that comes from the heart and not the wallet (which is ironically what she gives him because his current money carrying situation is not ideal). She also melts over the giant teddy bear he gives her

Katya and Ivan: Ivan has huge “valentine’s is a capitalist holiday made to sell candy and cards and I’m not falling for it” energy and Katya would agree with him up until the day and then be upset that nothing’s planned

Alyosha and Lise: Ok so I really don’t see these two as a romantic couple but I feel like Alyosha would be cheesy and make her a “will you be my valentine card” and take her to dinner and a movie and it would just be wholesome and they’re buddies

Kolya Krasotkin: He would give a rose and some candy to everyone at school who’s single on valentine’s day. Those are just the vibes he gives off to me

The Epanchin sisters: Galentine’s Day™️ They don’t need no man

[bbqhooligan]

Kolya Krasotkin is so fucking scary god bless

[awkwardhannigram]

Nikolai and Aleksey meet once again after years. They both remember Ilyusha.

[tavi-the-rat]

there's too few kolya krasotkin and ilyusha snegiryov content and im mad about it

[incorrectlit]

Kolya Krassotkin is anti-vax

[ionlygaveanonion]

The boys to Ilyusha: I don’t think Kolya’s coming

Kolya:

[la-esmerqlda]

So a ton of BSD fans have been getting into classical literature, and I would like to recommend “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky! It has a lot of those dark themes, and like BSD, a big portion of it is addressing the abuse many of the characters have suffered from. It’s a great exploration of family dynamics and the Russian outlook on life. It’s basically Dostoevsky’s magnum opus. Definitely read it!

If you like Atsushi Nakajima, you’ll probably like Alyosha Karamazov

If you like Chuuya Nakahara, you’ll probably like Dmitri Karamazov

If you like Fyodor Dostoevsky, you’ll probably like Pavel Smerdyakov

If you like Ozaki Kouyou, you’ll probably like Katerina Ivanovna

It you like Ryunosuke Akutagawa, you’ll probably like Ivan Karamazov

If you like Akiko Yosano, you’ll probably like Grushenka Alexandrovna

If you like Sigma, you’ll probably like Pyotr Kalganov

If you like Nikolai Gogol, you’ll probably like Kolya Krasotkin

If you like Lucy Montgomery, you’ll probably like Lise Kholakhov

If you like Izumi Kyoka, you’ll probably like Ilusha Snegiryov

[caddy-whump-us]

Ironically, I just read both City of Thieves and Gorky Park in the past month which have protagonists named Arkady and Kolya

Oh now that is funny!

Full disclosure: I’ve been hung up on the name Nikolai/Kolya since reading The Brothers Karamazov when I was a college freshman (for a philosophy class, actually) since there’s the side character/foil character Kolya Krasotkin. 

In terms of characterization my OC is nothing like Kolya Krasotkin (I don’t think? my guy’s not quite such a nihilist anyway), but the name stuck with me. So shout-out to my philosophy 101 professor, I guess?

Gosh Gorky Park is pretty much a classic in its genre, isn’t it? And yet I haven’t read it–but, hey, we’re under a stay-at-home order now, so maybe I can get to reading some ebooks here (I’ll add City of Thieves to that list too).

Now full disclosure about cousin Arkady: that name came from me going to behindthename dot com and going “uhhhhhh shit...what sounds good?” 

Shameful.

[dostoevskyordoesntshe]

Братья Карамазовы. Поэма. [The Brothers Karamazov. A Poem.] читай вслух [read out loud]

A Nice Little Family, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, The First Son Sent Packing.

The Second Marriage, Second Children, The Third Son, Alyosha

Elders, An Inappropriate Gathering: They Arrive at the Monastery, The Old Buffoon

Women of Faith--A Lady of Little Faith

So Be It! So Be It!

Why Is Such a Man Alive? A Seminarist-Careerist.

Scandal, Sensualists, In the Servants' Quarters, Stinking Lizaveta,

The Confession of an Ardent Heart. In Verse.

The Confession of an Ardent Heart. In Anecdotes.

The Confession of an Ardent Heart. "Heels Up"

Smerdyakov, Disputation Over the Congnac, The Sensualists,

The Two Together—One More Ruined Reputation Strains Father Ferapont,

At His Father's, He Gets Involved with Schoolboys

At the Khokhlakovs': Strain in the Drawing-Room, Strain in the Cottage, And in the Fresh Air

Pro and Contra: A Betrothal--Smerdyakov with a Guitar

The Brothers Get Acquainted…Rebellion

The Grand Inquisitor—A Rather Obscure One for the Moment.

It's Always Interesting to Talk to an Intelligent Man, the Russian Monk, Father Zosima and His Visitors

From the Life of the Hieromonk and Elder Zosima, Departed in God,

Composed from His Own Words by Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov.

Biographical Information Of the Elder Zosima’s Young Brother,

Of Holy Scripture in the Life of Father Zosima: Recollections of the Adolescence and Youth of the Elder Zosima while Still in the World.

The Duel. The Mysterious Visitor from Talks and Homilies of the Elder Zosima

Some Words about the Russian Monk and His Possible Significance…

Some Words about Masters and Servants and Whether It Is Possible for them to become Brothers in Spirit…

Of prayer, Love, and the Touching of Other Worlds!

Can One Be the Judge of One’s Fellow Creatures?

Of faith to the end! Of hell and hell fire: a mystical discourse!

Alyosha: The Odor of Corruption, An Opportune Moment

An Onion, Cana of Galilee

Mitya, Kuzma Samsonov, Lyagavy

Gold Mines, In the Dark: A Sudden Decision

Here I come! The Former and Indisputable One: Delirium

The Preliminary Investigation, The Start of the Official Perknotin’s Career, The Alarm

The Soul’s Journey through Torments. The First Torment. The Second Torment. The Third Torment: The Prosecutor Catches Mitya: Mitya's Great Secret Met with Hisses

The Evidences of the Witnesses. The Wee One, Mitya, is Taken Away

Kids, Kolya Krasotkin, Boys,

A Schoolboy—ZhuchkaAt Ilusha's Bedside—

Precocity—Ilyusha, Brother Ivan Fyodorovich At Grushenka's:

An Ailing little foot, A Little Demon…

A Hymn and a Secret: Not You, Not You!

The First Meeting with Smerdyakov, The Second Visit to Smerdyakov

The Third and Last Meeting with Smerdyakov, The Devil.

Ivan Fyodorovich’s Nightmare— “He Said That!” A Judicial Error

The Fatal Day, Dangerous Witnesses: Medical Expertise and One Pound of Nuts—Fortune Smiles on Mitya. A Sudden Catastrophe: The Prosecutor's Speech, Characterizations, A Historical Survey

A Treatise on Smerdyakov: Psychology at Full Steam! The Galloping Troika!

The Finale of the Prosecutor’s Speech, The Defense Attorney’s Speech: A Stick with two ends

There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery. And There Was No Murder Either…

An Adulterer of Thought, Our Peasants Stood Up For Themselves

Plans to Save Mitya? For a Moment the Lie Becomes Truth.

Ilusha's Funeral, The Speech at the Stone.

[wretchedvulgarian]

me: there’s no way I could pick a favorite character in the brother karamazov. I like so many of them

also me while reading: ok but where’s kolya

[hoursofreading]

❤️ alyosha and dmitri and kolya krasotkin but not so terribly fond of ivan, like what’s his problem.

[drewschermickblindone]

"Nikolai Ivanov Krasotkin"(Kolya)

11" x 14"/27.94cm x 35.56cm 

Ink on paper 

©Drew Schermick 2019