. Russian portraits . sunmade a strange background. My bourgeois pre-judice was just for a moment shocked, until Iremembered that in our own old fourteenthcentury chapel at home Papa typewrites on thealtar step. It has been longer in disuse it is true,but still, one must be consistent. From there wedrove in the car to the house of Ostrouckof, whoshowed me his room full of Ikons, one of whichcame out of St. Sofia. Some date back to thefifth and sixth centuries. They were beautiful indesign and colour, and most interesting when heexplained them to me. Downstairs he had amodern motley collection.
. Russian portraits . sunmade a strange background. My bourgeois pre-judice was just for a moment shocked, until Iremembered that in our own old fourteenthcentury chapel at home Papa typewrites on thealtar step. It has been longer in disuse it is true,but still, one must be consistent. From there wedrove in the car to the house of Ostrouckof, whoshowed me his room full of Ikons, one of whichcame out of St. Sofia. Some date back to thefifth and sixth centuries. They were beautiful indesign and colour, and most interesting when heexplained them to me. Downstairs he had amodern motley collection. He showed us aMattisse given to him by Mattisse himself; itwas a curious contrast after Ikons. We drifted into some art schools, where soldiersand sailors were working from life models, and thework they were doing was extremely good. Oneof these schools was in the large house of a richmerchant. The Soviet Government are prettyshrewd in the selection of houses for variouspurposes. Although some of the big houses are92. THE CHURCH OF SAINT BASIL AND THE RED SQUARE, p. 05. RUSSIAN PORTRAITS often given over for clubs or workplaces, only areally vulgar, over-decorated house in impossiblybad taste is used for rough or dirty work. The exhibitions of proletarian art are veryinteresting, and deeply imbued with the modernmovement. There are crude drawings that showan appreciation of form, and there is sculpturein wood that is often very effective, and may leadto something good. One of these exhibitions was in an exquisitehouse of beautiful architecture that stood backfrom the street, in a garden that had run to house had once belonged to the PrincessDolgorouki, but it had passed into the hands of aCountess somebody, who had died. The daughterheritiere had been turned out, but it was said thatshe was still living in the basement. The groundfloor consisted of a series of small, beautifullyproportioned rooms, with painted ceilings andcarved doors. One was a Chinese room and allwe
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