Smart Contracts of Russian Literature
Transversal Composition #002
[Five if by Fire]
The bullet in Mayakovsky’s pistol doesn’t match the bullet in his body NFT
Dostoyevsky reprieved before firing squad NFT
Lermontov shot in half-cocked duel NFT
Pushkin fatally wounded by Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d’Anthès aka Dantes-Gekkern NFT
Gogol tricked into destroying Purgatory by the Devil and then starves himself to death NFT
[For Shame]
‘Turgenev -the cancan- sad’ NFT
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
[Caveat emissorium]
Bulgakov posts a letter he did not intend to post NFT
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
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.
14 April, 1930
22 December, 1849
27 July, 1841
29 January, 1837
21 February, 1852
Yásnaya Polyána, 1878
20 November, 1910
“….” July, 1929
1962-63
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…