The Picturesque Temple Of The Great God Pan, Lord Of The Wild And Nature Of Mountain Wilds: Located In

I hate my heart, as long as it is beating it echoes in silence of my madness and blinks in the darkness of my soul

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Directions.

And more stubbornness.

Yesterday I visited the Penates - the house of Russian painter Ilya Repin. It stands surrounded by pine forest, and the Bay of Finland is a 5 minute walk from the house.

The wooden house is very Russian style with little roofs and multiple terraces and enamel fireplaces in every room. There's a large studio on the second floor with large windows and skylights to allow as much natural light in as possible.

Repin was a very prolific painter and a huge name in his day, but also a bit of an eccentric. He always slept in a small unheated terrace, even through the winter. Him and his wife were vegetarian and practiced no-help dinner parties (with no servants at the door or the table). His weekly dinner parties on Wednesdays were attended by a multitude of artists, musicians, scientists. He was friends with Gorky, Mayakovsky, Chukovsky, Tolstoy, Yesenin etc. etc.

(Last picture: Ilya Repin paints opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin in his studio, 1914.)

Winter Full Moon Night over the Ruins of a Gothic Chapel (Felix Kreutzer, 1835 - 1876)

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray by Henrique Medina 1945