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Back in the Tsarist era, a fad for posing in fake boats, planes, and automobiles resulted in some of Russia’s quaintest portraits. In the photo above, a Russian soldier serenades his love in a dinghy named “Mermaid.

” The delightfully odd pictures have long fascinated Christopher B. Steiner, a professor of art history and anthropology at […]. petapixel.com

2020-1-30 19:33