Russian Architecture/imperial Russia 1712%e2%80%931917

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    “We are all dead men on leave.”
    —Eugene Leviné, Russian Jew, friend of Rosa Luxemburg’s lover, Jogiches. quoted in Men in Dark Times, “Rosa Luxemburg: 1871-1919,” sct. 3, Hannah Arendt (1968)

    “I don’t think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.”
    —Roy Lichtenstein (b. 1923)

    “Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.”
    —Frances Burney (1752–1840)

    “... gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hatpin.”
    —Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)