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Krotka: A Gentle Creature by Dostoevsky
(Fayum style), acrylic on canvas, 2023
Nastasya Filippovna, acrylic on canvas, 2021
Nastasya’s character is shown in a rare moment of amaze- ment when surprised by Myshkin’s words she realizes a different way of looking at life. Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin and Nastasya Filippovna are the protagonists of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1869 novel The Idiot. Christian Bobin said that Prince Myshkin is a “prince of empathy.”
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