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@cirillabelle

Rookie Doctor. Loves History,asoiaf ,Cats,. Bibliophile. Odd Ball. Gamer. Leo Cub.

↳ Romanov Russia ~ 19th Century - Early 20th Century

❝  Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.❞                                    — Winston Churchill R E C O M M E N D E D  F I L M SAnna Karenina (2012) √ Anna Karenina (1977) √ Fall of Eagles (1974) √ The Romanovs: An Imperial Family (2000) √ Russian Ark (2002) √ Sunstroke (2014) √ War & Peace (2007)

R EC O M M E N D E D  N O V E L S

The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin √ Most Beautiful Princess by Christina Croft √ The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky √ The Lost Crown by Sarah Miller √  Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin √ Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy √ War & Peace by Lev Tolstoy

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter–often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter–in the eye.”

- 𝐽𝑎𝑛𝑒 𝐸𝑦𝑟𝑒, 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒

“Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”

- 𝑊ℎ𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐻𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠, 𝐸𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝐵𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒

                                                     Dance, Dance!!!

1. Rogelio de Egusquiza (Spanish, 1845-1915), “The end of the ball”

2.  Paul-Eugène Mesplès “Ballet Dancers”

3.  Vladimir Pervunensky, A Viennese Ball, (2006)

4.  The Blue Waltz by Ferdinand von Reznicek

5.  Une soirée élégante by Victor Gabriel Gilbert

6. “Tango Mondain” by Xavier Sager c. 1910

7.  Life Magazine – December 7, 1911 by Cole Phillips

8.  One of J.C. Leyendecker  ads for Arrow dress shirts

9.  Jean-Georges Béraud - The Dance

10.  Charles Hoffbauer - At the Ball