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...PAINTINGS ON VIEW IN the exhibitionare unfamiliar even to Americans at home in theworld of canvas and pigment. While the writers andmusicians of the period--Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,Chekhov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky--have achievedworldwide fame, the visual artists remain largelyunknown outside of the Soviet Union. In the latenineteenth century Russian culture came into itsown, breaking free of the slavish imitation ofwestern norms that had plagued it since Peter theGreat first journeyed across the steppes in the1700s. The efforts of painters to forge a uniqueRussian artistic identity rivaled their literaryand musical counterparts in complexity, sincerityand originality...
Repin's genius was in capturing the inner worldof his subjects; in his portrait of his daughter,he uses a lighter palette to show the happy natureof the girl as she clasps a bouquet of flowers inan open field. Tolstoy, on the other hand, iscaptured in profound contemplation, theself-imposed simplicity of the author's later lifeaccented as much by his stance and costume as byhis countenance...
...Kamal notices need and gets up and does something about it. He's mobilized people into action on behalf of others, and that's remarkable," says Robert Coles '50, Professor of Psychiatry and president of ODN's board of directors. "Kamal has what Tolstoy calls a great soul...
...reluctant to play the Russian sage or the Slavic mystic. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky had those parts sewed up, and besides, Chekhov was offended by the pronouncements of those who felt above the battle. "All great wise men," he said, with the author of War and Peace in mind, "are as despotic as generals and as impolite and insensitive as generals because they are confident of their impunity...
...staging of his play Ivanov, that the public knew the author as A.P. Chekhov. Reviewers were generally hostile; "a flippantly cynical piece of foolishness, foul and immoral," said the man from the Muscovite Newssheet. But with the appearance of the story The Steppe in 1888, Chekhov was compared with Tolstoy and Gogol...