#russian literature

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[gennsoup]

No one has every stared more tenderly or more fixedly after you… I kiss you--across hundreds of separating years.

Marina Tsvetayeva, No one has taken anything away

[metamorphesque]

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

[dostovs]

[intothedreamverse]

White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[luciferslilith7]

"Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!"

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

@luciferslilith7

[theshrine]

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

[sutekooooo]

Pro and Contra

Hope you enjoy💕😈🕊

[joytri]

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Essential Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva; "For Anna Akhmatova,"

[creantzy]

Back with a redraw of these losers

[metamorphesque]

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

[dostovs]

[theoptia]

Gennady Aygi, from Into the Snow: Selected Poems of Gennady Aygi; “This Year’s Roses: Notes on K., 1972” (translated by Sarah Valentine)

Text ID: I seek / your image. / In the receding Fire. / It is not here—not in this world.

[sovietpostcards]