Tag: Russian Golden Age
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Pyotr F. Sokolov: Watercolour Portraits in the Age of Pushkin

Art
Beyond the Cyrillic curve and the printed page, if the Golden Age of Russian poetry has a visual representative it may lie in the works of Pyotr F. Sokolov. From the early 1810s until the time of his death in the late 1840s, Sokolov painted in aquarelle portraits of the society figures who inhabited an elite cultural milieu in...

On the Fugitive and French and Russian Poetry

Literature
When we hear or read the word 'fugitive' today, we perhaps tend to think of someone fleeing from something: most often in a legal frame, from justice; but also potentially from persecution, or simply from the uncomfortable circumstances of their lives. Supporting the first relation is the FBI's list of the 'Ten Most Wanted Fugitives'. This was conceived by J. Edgar...