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On December 10, 1987, Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for comprehensive creativity imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." The news of the award of a prestigious prize found the poet in London. At this point, he had lived abroad for several years. Brodsky was forced to leave the USSR in 1972, after having withstood pressure for almost a decade. Let us recall an excerpt from the poet’s Nobel speech.

Иван Иванович Шишкин провёл в сосновом бору буквально полжизни, поэтому изображение леса в самом разном освещении стало излюбленным сюжетом всех картин художника. За любовь к лесу Шишкин даже получил от коллег шуточное прозвище «царь леса».

Man, our contemporary, unexpectedly finds himself in the Hermitage at the beginning of the 1700s, having no idea how he got there. Inspecting the halls, he meets a foreigner, in which he guesses the features of the famous French diplomat and traveler of the XIX century. These two travel time through 300 years of Russian history, works of art and cultural monuments return them to the time of the Russian Empire.

We continue the section where we will talk about works of art, where the New Jerusalem Monastery is mentioned.

После первого путешествия на Таити Поль Гоген написал картину «Чудесный источник», своего рода воспоминание-впечатление, созданное в ярких южных красках. Работа построена на разнице в стилистической подаче верхней и нижней части картины.