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[fyeahmovies]

[rosccte]

fyeahmovies:

The Revenant (2015), dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu

[morbidiaoliva]

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Tchaikovsky - Autumn

[ghostlywriterr]

[cinderelladaily]

Cinder Wench. Dirty Ella. Cinderella!

[waltdisneydaily]

Rags? This was my mother’s.

[animations-daily]

Ella, my darling. I want to tell you a secret. A great secret that will see you through all the trials that life can offer. You must always remember this. Have courage and be kind. You have more kindness in your little finger than most people possess in their whole body.

[emmyrussum]

Cinderella (1950)

[russian-style]

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Song of Stenka Razin (Iz-za ostrova na strezhen’- From the island to the midstream) was written in 1870s by a Russian poet and folklorist Dmitry Sadovnikov. It’s based on Russian folk musical motives and a legend about Cossack ataman Razin, who made revolt in 1670-1671. According to Holland traveller, Razin captured the daughter of a Persian commander and made her his wife. But once he suddenly threw the Persian princess (knyazhna) in the Volga-river as a sacrifice for all gold and jewelry he got “from it”.

The song stresses the motive of the solidarity with his men. Persiyanka was drowned because Razin’s command resented that after a night with his new wife the ataman became a molly.

The song was very popular. This is a famous performance by Feodor Chaliapin.

[lovebookquotes]

“She has a name already, volchitsa, my love, my terrible wolf. She is my death. And I love her abjectly, as a father must.”

Deathless, Catherynne M Valente

[glitterofthepast]

Russian bride being arranged, painted by Makovsky

[lifeinpoetry]

She knew herself, how she had slowly over, over the years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.

Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless

[luthienne]

You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless

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moodboard : alix of hesse, last tsaritsa of all the russias

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Как узор на окне

Снова прошлое рядом

Кто-то пел песню мне

В зимний вечер когда-то

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[oberynymeros]

“I saw your father die. Here is his killer. Can I take a skull to bed with me, to give me comfort in the night? Will it make me laugh, write me songs, care for me when I am old and sick?”

[yizere]

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