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 NFT

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Dostoyevsky reprieved before firing squad NFT

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Lermontov shot in half-cocked duel NFT

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

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

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[For Shame]

‘Turgenev -the cancan- sad’ NFT

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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 NFT

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[Caveat emissorium]

Bulgakov posts a letter he did not intend to post NFT

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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 NFT

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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