Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Volga Boatmen by Ilya Repin


















Volga! Volga! In the spring your torrents
Cannot flood the fields as much
As our people's awful pain
Floods our land-
-Nikolay Nekrasov, "Thoughts at a Vestibule", 1858.
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