Sleeping Beauty. Pushkin. Village Boldino.
“Mirror, mirror tell the truth but to report. I only weapon in the prettiest of them all, all rosy and whiter?”
In Russian literature.
In Russian literature, too, we find very characteristic and vivid examples of such creativity. There are the sophisticated baroque work of Simeon of Polotsk and the political caricatures of Archpriest Avvakum (seventeenth century); the monumental mosaic compositions of Lomonosov (eighteenth century); the romantic landscapes of Zhukovsky and Baratynsky; the elegiac landscapes of Batyushkov; Gogol’s architectural…