Historic Painting: Maslenitsa by Boris Kustodiev, 1919.
This amazing painting depicts the Russian winter holiday festival just before Lent.
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"May a man not be allowed to drink a glass of wine by his own fireside?"
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Crossbow arrows, a nude John Hurt and a script possibly written on hallucinogens. What's not to like?
Interiors: Biblioteca Palafoxiana, ancient library in Ciudad de Puebla, Mexico.
This beautiful library room represents one of the great intellectual repositories of Colonial Mexico.