letters from home

19th - 20th century history & culture, the arts, and other neat things.

[postarcadian]

i. The Wanderer (anonymous Old English poem ca. 9th-10th century; trans. A.S. Kline)

ii. Maffeo Vegio, Book XIII of the Aeneid, 1428, trans. Michael Putnam

iii. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, 1954

[russiawave]

Rinat Voligamsi, Ursa Major

[bleueandmoody]

Portraits by Fyodor Vasilyevich Shapayev

[bebs-art-gallery]

Young Man in Churchyard (1938)

— by Peter Weiss

[thunderstruck9]

Peter Weiss (Swedish, 1916-1982), Young Man in a Churchyard, 1938. Oil on panel, 45 x 49 cm.

[fravery]

Kaoru Yamada

[poboh]

Aurora Borealis, 1905, Arthur Heming. Canadian (1870 - 1940)

[luthienne]

H.D., from Helen in Egypt

[Text ID: but I was home-sick for familiar trees,]

[suzani]

Amazing textiles and style…. Tajik man, near Bukhara, Central Asia. 1898—1899. Very nice old bohemian style, caftan, turban.

Таджик (окрестности Бухары). Здесь и далее фото Г. Крафта.

[ancientsstudies]

Winter in Gustaf Fjaestad's Paintings.

[1i1ium-cand1dum]

The Northern Lights 1: Howard Russell Butler (1856-1934) 2,3,4: Sydney Laurence (1865-1940)

[vintage-sweden]

Listening to the radio, 1937, Sweden.

[parsabad]

Pomegranate gardens/ Iran

Photography: amir sadeghian

[b0nesinthegarden]

Black cats auditioning for the movie adaption of Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Black Cat.’ (1961) 🐾

[soapstore]

[rose-of-pollux]

Peter Lorre and Vincent Price with a couple of the contenders–

[sovietpostcards]

A couple in the little park near Revolution Square metro station in Moscow. The Bolshoi Theater is seen on the background. Photo by Nikolai Rakhmanov (1956).

[sovietpostcards]

Moscow in 1963

[slavicafire]

Giewont, Tatra Mountains. 1939.

[caius-octavius-blog]