Konstantin Somov

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Age: 48

Lives in: Petrograd, Russian Empire

Occupation: artist, illustrator

Interests: book illustrations, landscape painting, symbolism

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Konstantin Somov

Petrograd, Russian Republic

13.10.17

We worry, both Anyuta and I—Ezel and Dago have been taken. See more

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Konstantin Somov

Petrograd, Russian Republic

11.10.17

An evening with Anyuta at the Bohemia Theatre. Dull, wasn’t worth it. In general, opera is unbearably dull as a genre.

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Konstantin Somov

Petrograd, Russian Republic

06.10.17

I drew for quite a long time after breakfast, was finishing off a drawing I started over two years ago – an imaginary portrait of a marquise with a powdered face, for sale, a silly thing.

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Konstantin Somov

Petrograd, Russian Republic

24.09.17

I've been reading the Pepis diaryThe diary of Pepis - a British state official of the navy, author of a diary about everyday London life during the Restoration. in bed. Very curious diary form, just like my notes.

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Konstantin Somov

Petrograd, Russian Republic

17.09.17

The events are developing so fast and with so many surprises that you can’t believe that you are living in them, and not in some kind of story or novel. See more

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Konstantin Somov

Petrograd, Russian Empire

22.08.17

It is a cloudy morning, with a smell of burning. Everything is covered in lilac fog. Beautiful.

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Konstantin Somov

Petrograd, Russian Empire

11.08.17

What a wonderful day, a very hot one. I went to get a haircut, my hairdresser was a rude, sordid girl. Everyone is now rude, lazy, it’s as if they are doing you a favor.

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Konstantin Somov

Petrograd, Russian Empire

27.02.17

The opening of the Duma, riots are “promised”.

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Konstantin Somov

on the 1st presentation of "The Stone Guest", production by Meyerhold and Golovin

Mariinsky theatre, Petrograd, Russian Empire

09.02.17

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Commander's grave. Alexander Golovin. Decoration sketch for the opera "Stone Guest" by Alexander Dargomyzhskiy. 1917

Frivolous, very pretentious, very ignorant, muddled and stupid.

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Konstantin Somov with Alexandre Benois

38, 1st line of Vasilyevsky Island, Petrograd, Russian Empire

06.02.17

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Macaroni sellers. Naples, Italy. Between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Had dinner at seven with Benois. Gorky, who I found most agreeable, was also there. He told us the most engaging stories of Naples, Capri and Pompei, and of the morals, traditions and celebrations of the people there.

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Konstantin Somov with Alexandre Benois

Petrograd, Russian Empire

27.01.17

Shura showed us the painting he has begun for the Moscow Kazanskaya Railway Station. I was not impressed with his sketches, which appear boring and banal. The overall impression is one of heaviness: muddy colours and wilting subjects. But his work is sincere. Of course I kept my opinion to myself, but I will need to tell him when the work begins in earnest.

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