In this bizarre painting of 'Timeless' or Eternal Russia
the only woman to be found in a sea of wartless men
(I have identified Rachmaninov, Dostoyevsky,
Tchaikovsky...and Jesus – but where is Stalin?)
is a pin-up (extreme left)
who seems to have wandered in, weeping,
from a drug-infested, possibly abusive photo-shoot.
All that pious, inhibited testosterone ! It's just as well
that the fresh air is wafting away the smell !
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| detail of painting by Ilya Glazunov, 1988. |
Spoiler: Stalin is to the middle right in a sled with Trotzky & co.
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Ah, thanks for that. I hadn't looked hard enough. I guess Stalin and Trotsky (where is Beria?)are sledding/sleighing to The Ride of the Valkyries as re-composed by Shostakovich.
ReplyDeleteI guess I see Musorgsky
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