Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Homesickness", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone) [ID'd]

"O Lord, what shall i do? "

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov escapes the Pawnbroker’s tenements : Crime and Punishment illustration

details of him :)

I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

A Fyodor Dostoevsky doodle for his birthday.

some crime and punishment sketches I did while reading the book + watching that series on yt

(most are ras/raz oof-)

The Executed Renaissance was a literary and artistic generation of the 1920s and early 1930s in Ukraine that was exterminated by the soviet government. Prominent contemporary writer Viktoriia Amelina once said: "My worst fear is coming true: I'm inside the new Executed Renaissance". She was later killed by russian missile in 2023.

Ukrainian art was scrutinized and destroyed by russia, artists were persecuted and murdered for being Ukrainians, our language was forbidden many times. Our culture is still being appropriated by russia (many "russian" artists you know are actually not russian at all, they're from countries colonized by russia), our artists are still being murdered, Ukrainian books are being burned by occupiers in occupied territory, paintings are being stolen, they mock and tell us that our culture is subpar, yet they do everything to erase it from existence. Today's shelling of Boichuk Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design in Kyiv is just one example from centuries of opression.

hes a 10 but he lays on the couch in a feverish delirium every day

1) Tumblr user @1dietcokeinacan, 2)Elaine Kraf, 3) Tumblr user @997 , 4) Meditations in an Emergency by Cameron Awkward-Rich, 5) Lorde’s email newsletter, Sep 2023, 6) And My Fathers Love Was Nothing Next to God’s Will by Amatullah Bourdon, 7) Unknown, 8) outhouse, Rachel McKibbin, 9) Agua Vida, Clarice Lipsector, 10) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

O sonho de Rodion | Rodion's dream

Version where I kick Rodya out of his own dream so you can look better at the horsy ↓

Cuties

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Epitaph, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone) [ID'd]

Sex is actually a myth created by classic Russian lit authors as a plot device to stir up drama

People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that is a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

If Rodya Raskolnikov had a cold... would he Raskolnikough?

Razumikhin, Dunya, Sonya, Pulcheria Alexandrovna:

Raskolnikov: