#russian book art

[fuzzyghost]

[joytri]

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

[sovietpostcards]

Pyotr Bagin. Illustration for Yuri Koval's "The Birch Pie" (1989).

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Snow Queen

Artist : Vladimir Nenov

[escapismsworld]

La tour Eiffel, la nuit, by Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (Russian, 1824-1896), 1889

[arnirea]

Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in “Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930.”

[daweyt]

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Brothers Karamazov”, originally published c. 1879–1880.

[seraphim-eternal]

To love someone is to see them as God intended them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[piroshky]

Маугли. Illustrated by Aleksandr Koshkin. 1983.

[clownsfiles]

[fuzzyghost]

Harold Robbins - The Betsy (Russian Cover)

[joytri]

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (translated by George Reavy)

[ravene]

O sonho de Rodion | Rodion's dream

Version where I kick Rodya out of his own dream so you can look better at the horsy ↓

[esarkaye]

Some shelves in my new place.

[uaravsh]

"Talk nonsense , but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in your own way is better than to go right in someone else's."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky , "Crime and Punishment"@silentroad

[angelusmonts]

Did a piece I actually enjoyed !! 🪓💥