Smart Contracts of Russian Literature

Transversal Composition #002

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[Five if by Fire]

The bullet in Mayakovsky’s pistol doesn’t match the bullet in his body NFT¹

Dostoyevsky reprieved before firing squad NFT²

Lermontov shot in half-cocked duel NFT³

Pushkin fatally wounded by Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d’Anthès aka Dantes-Gekkern NFT⁴

Gogol tricked into destroying Purgatory by the Devil and then starves himself to death NFT⁵

[For Shame]

‘Turgenev -the cancan- sad’ NFT⁶

Turgenev dogged by cowardice as if by greekfire NFT

[Virtù et Fortuna]

With animal knowingness, Tolstoy leaves Yásnaya Polyána to die away from home under the early stir of media fanfare at the stationmaster’s house in Astapovo NFT⁷

[Caveat emissorium]

Bulgakov posts a letter he did not intend to post NFT⁸

Surveillance tightening around her neck; Akhmatova scratches out a poem like an escape plan, has her visitor co[n]sign it : ad memoriam : then burns it NFT⁹

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Ilya Repin. Не ждали (They Did Not Expect Him). Oil on canvas. 167.5 cm c 160.5 cm; 65.9 in x 63.1 in. Tetryakov Gallery, Moscow.

1. 14 April, 1930

2. 22 December, 1849

3. 27 July, 1841

4. 29 January, 1837

5. 21 February, 1852

6. Yásnaya Polyána, 1878

7. 20 November, 1910

8. “….” July, 1929 

9. 1962-63