Covidian Æsthetics

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Smart Contracts of Russian Literature

Transversal Composition #002

Mónica Belevan
Jul 30, 2021
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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


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.

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14 April, 1930

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22 December, 1849

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27 July, 1841

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29 January, 1837

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21 February, 1852

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Yásnaya Polyána, 1878

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20 November, 1910

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“….” July, 1929 

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1962-63

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Dead Janie
Jul 30, 2021

The Selected Poems of Akhmatova as translated by D.M. Thomas are highly interesting in relation to NFTs. In the introduction, Thomas describes her as seeing others as “doubles” or more or less extensions of herself…

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