#russian lit

[inferno-lite]

On page 430 of war and peace..i think I'm finally understanding why it's such a great novel. Tolstoy really portrays how everyone* is made up of a constantly shifting web of desires and conditional personality traits

*except women, who are all evil

[soracities]

Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)

[airplaner]

war and peace character designs for illustration class

[thistlebane-art]

Raskolnikov x Razumikhin

[artechna]

My vocaloid Crime and Punishment song, “Extraordinary Man”, has been released on YouTube!

Here are most of the frames from the promotional video, though I encourage you to listen to the song and watch the video because I spent a lot of time producing and editing it aghhg. It is a bountiful day for the Raskolnikov lovers today...

[carcinogenical]

"O Lord, what shall i do? "

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

details of him :)

[reverie-quotes]

It happens sometimes that we meet people—even perfect strangers—who interest us at first glance, quite suddenly and unexpectedly, before a word has been spoken.

— Fyodor Dosotevsky, Crime and Punishment

[abs0lut3-s0lv3r]

the lion does not concern themselves with people who ragebait by saying they hate alyosha karamazov