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“There are no chairs or tables in my tiny room. Vera says that only savages sit down. Only a prone position is beautiful and becoming to the body. She has spread carpets on mattresses along the walls and scattered pillows over them... ("Thirty-Three Abominations")”

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Silver Age of Russian Culture

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