Lenin and Tolstoy
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Identifier
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28
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Title
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Lenin and Tolstoy
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Creator
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English
Davyd Davydovich Burliuk
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Type
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Painting
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Description
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Burliuk's "Lenin and Tolstoy” is an attempt to depict two real symbols of Russia — the Past embodied in the image of Tolstoy and the Future embodied in Lenin, ploughing up the soil of future impressive success of Soviet Russia — became a paraphrase of Ilya Repin’s “The Ploughman Tolstoy in the Fields”.
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Date of Creation
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1925
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Date Modified
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1930
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Accessed Through
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"Futurism and After: David Burliuk (1882-1967)" by Natella Voiskounski. Magazine issue: Special issue N1. USA–RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES
