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catherine: search for golden pheasants
Catherine’s boat ride. It was 1787 and the Empress was showing off the wonders of her realm, which were many indeed. Question was, were they real,or fake? Only General Potemkin, the one-eyed giant, knew for sure. And he wasn’t saying… … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Catherine the Great, Czar Peter III, Diderot in Russia, Friedrich Melchior Grimm, General Potemkin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mae West, peter woditsch, potemkin village, Taurian Palace, Virginia Rounding, Voltaire
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Looking for the naughty bits
The intimate relationship between sex and death carried to the extremes of excess as only the Russian characters seems uniquely equipped to articulate. The secret erotic room of Catherine the Great as urban legend or in fact proof of decadence … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aristophanes, catherine the great erotic room, catherine the great furniture, hermann broch, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, peter woditsch, siege of leningrad, Sigmund Freud, sophie schoukens
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