Friday, January 1, 2010

Russian Iconography



Here's a scene that could have played out anytime in the last 500 years of Russian history: the dissident arrested in Red Square by the czar's police.

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It presents a dramatic scene: a woman in blue being grasped on the one hand by the hand of the state, and on the other by the hands of her loved one's. The war between tyranny and liberty, playing out on New Year's Eve.


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