Is there a possible future where Russia has true friendship relations with the Baltic countries, based on mutual respect?
Lovely paintings
Only the 5th painting doesn’t feel depressing to look at
These paintings bring a feeling of melancholy with them
I feel like some of these paintings could serve as early Pink Floyd album covers. Also, I get a feeling of depression when I look at them….
> the lava-deluged city of Vilna
> Throughout the many centuries of its existence, Vilna never ceased to be a city of the forests. All about it lay an abandoned province of Europe whose people spoke Polish, Lithuanian, and Byelorussian, or a mixture of the three, and retained many customs and habits long since forgotten elsewhere. I speak in the past tense because today this city of my childhood is as lava-inundated as was Pompeii. Most of its former inhabitants were either murdered by the Nazis, deported to Siberia, or re-settled by the Russians in the western territories from which the Germans were expelled. Other people, born thou sands of miles away, now walk its streets; and for them, its churches, founded by Lithuanian princes and Polish kings, are useless.
>> Milosz, The Captive Mind
Soviet Concrete did such a MARVELOUS job at making it a more beautiful city /s
Ahhhh, where do you find all these painters?! I feel jealous.
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Is there a possible future where Russia has true friendship relations with the Baltic countries, based on mutual respect?
Lovely paintings
Only the 5th painting doesn’t feel depressing to look at
These paintings bring a feeling of melancholy with them
I feel like some of these paintings could serve as early Pink Floyd album covers. Also, I get a feeling of depression when I look at them….
> the lava-deluged city of Vilna
> Throughout the many centuries of its existence, Vilna never ceased to be a city of the forests. All about it lay an abandoned province of Europe whose people spoke Polish, Lithuanian, and Byelorussian, or a mixture of the three, and retained many customs and habits long since forgotten elsewhere. I speak in the past tense because today this city of my childhood is as lava-inundated as was Pompeii. Most of its former inhabitants were either murdered by the Nazis, deported to Siberia, or re-settled by the Russians in the western territories from which the Germans were expelled. Other people, born thou sands of miles away, now walk its streets; and for them, its churches, founded by Lithuanian princes and Polish kings, are useless.
>> Milosz, The Captive Mind
Soviet Concrete did such a MARVELOUS job at making it a more beautiful city /s
Ahhhh, where do you find all these painters?! I feel jealous.