—  Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva

чем больше узнаю людей – тем больше люблю деревья!

Charles van den Eycken - Happier Than a Prince (1916)

Philip de László - Miss Lisa Minghetti (1933)

Lisa was born Elise Pauline Pollak in Vienna on 17 October 1911, the daughter of Siegfried Pollak, an engineer and bridge builder, and his wife Adele, née Frankenstein. When Lisa was seven her father died of tuberculosis aged 51. She made her first appearance at the age of twelve at an orchestral concert of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. She studied the violin at the Vienna Conservatory, going later to Berlin to complete her training with Carl Flesch, after which she moved to London, probably in 1933, in October of which year the present portrait was made. According to her son, in order to leave Germany she had been helped by an Italian diplomat who had befriended her in Berlin. Lisa recalled attending a reception with him at which Hitler was present: as they had passed into the reception area she had seen two members of the Gestapo commenting on the women and overheard one say to the other he could “smell a Jew a mile away.” After she had been presented to Hitler, who kissed her hand, the same man said that Lisa, who was indeed Jewish, was the most beautiful woman present. She never returned to her native Austria and changed her name officially to Lisa Minghetti in 1935, although earlier references to the present portrait indicate that she was using that name before. When the Germans arrived in Austria, her mother and elder sister emigrated to Buenos Aires but Lisa never saw her mother again. In England she frequently played at major orchestral concerts in London and the provinces. While there she met and married Anton Maaskoff, himself a violin prodigy and 18 years her senior. Before the outbreak of war they moved to Los Angeles where her only child Maurice was born in 1940. There she performed with the Alan Hancock Ensemble at the University of Southern California, in motion picture studio orchestras, and frequently gave chamber music recitals at home and for benefit concerts. She was considered to be in the first rank of modern women violinists, combining sound musicianship with brilliance of execution. Early on she worked and developed a close relationship with Paul Robeson. Having experienced American racial prejudice with him, later she herself became involved in the civil rights movement. After Anton Maaskoff died in 1951 she married Alfred Lustgarten, a Julliard trained violinist, who adopted her son. His brother was a renowned cellist and both played under Toscanini for a number of years. Lisa Minghetti died in Los Angeles of skin cancer on 7 October 1961, shortly before her fiftieth birthday. (source)

Stanisław Fabijański - 'Night'. View of the Vistula River Bend with the Norbertine Monastery and the Wawel Castle (1905)

Vincent van Gogh - The Parsonage at Nuenen by Moonlight (1885)

Henriëtte Ronner-Knip - The Maine Coon (1894)

@mirins us?

busy re-establishing yugoslavia online with my tumblr mutuals

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]

René Magritte - The happy donor (1966)

Hemen Mazumdar - Lady with Fruit Basket (n.d.)

I absolutely HATE it when people (Anglophone monolinguals mostly) use the Cyrillic alphabet for aesthetics (Я as R, Д as A, last one is especially bad)

TRUST ME it doesn't look good, it's ridiculous to anyone who can actually read Cyrillic

learning to be my mother

What We Become, Hailey Noecker / Mirror Traps, Hera Lindsey Bird / unknown / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong / legitimately fucking dean winchester from supernatural / Elektra, Sophokles / When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Chen Chen / The White Dress, Nathalie Leger / Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn

We need everyone's help right now to protect the rainforest and Indigenous People

The Amazon Rainforest is under a massive threat. I know you've heard this a million times, but this is different. There is a piece of legislation that will decimate the rights of Indigenous people of Brazil, who have been protecting the rainforest. It's unfathomably bad. It has majority support. And they're voting tomorrow. As reported here, the Bill allows "the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples."

The thing you can do—and I know this sounds overly simple—is sign this petition—and tell your friends to do the same: SIGN HERE.

As reported here, the Bill allows "the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples."

Again, this bill has majority support. You may be wondering, why will a petition signed by people who don't live in Brazil make any difference? Because it will give those opposing it political air cover. It will show the world is with them.

But we need a LOT of signatures.

Please do this simple act and spread the word.

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hey all. i never thought i’d have to make One Of These Posts, but here goes.

i’m a 21 yo gay muslim romani university student from greece. despite what the stereotype may be i come from a family where begging for money is considered inherently scummy, so you may understand why this post is particularly hard for me to make, and i wouldn’t be here right now if i hadn’t run out of options.

my family and i recently had to amass a large sum of money to pay for a relative’s cancer operation, and i had to chip in. the money i gave away was destined for my rent and living expenses for the month of june, but seeing how the situation was extremely urgent i didn’t think twice about it.

only issue is, i’m a student in a city other than the one i’m permanently living/working in, my finals are starting this week and i have a grand total of twenty euros to my name. i’ve only been eating bread for the past three days, and if i don’t make rent by next week i will be evicted and therefore unable to partake in my exams, which means getting my degree will be prolonged by another term aka even more expenses i’ll have to cover.

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Bulgarian nobility clothing

Bulgarian tzar and tzaritsa in everyday clothing, mid XIII century

Bulgarian bolyar (sebastokrator) formal clothing from mid XIII century (a reconstruction of Kaloyan and Desislava's depiction in the Boyana church)

Bulgarian bolyar clothing from XIV century

Bulgarian tzar and tzaritsa ceremonial clothing from the later half of tzar Ivan Alexander's reign

Bulgarian despot and his wife's clothing from the reign of tzar Ivan Alexander

Source: Venera Naslednikova's History of the Bulgarian national dress

Female festive attire (left - Kyiv Region, right - Poltava Region), late XIXth - early XXth century