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Tag: The Physiology of Saint Petersburg

Where did Petersburg’s organ-grinders go in winter?

I fear only some of them migrated with the swallows. Featuring Boris Sadovskoy, Yuri Norstein, Aleksey Batalov, Rolan Bykov and Gogol.

The great Rolan Bykov in The Overcoat, with not an organ-grinder in sight.

Donald for Dalai Lama, or Pope, or Caliph, or something

A Trump Taj Mahal Casino multitrack jukebox, to help make religion rather better than it has been, again.

Entrance to the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, NJ.

A sensational 1810 Parisian fire scene on top of an 1840s Russian barrel organ

But who are the three noseless Austrian ladies?

Robert Hillingford, The Disaster at the Ball Given by the Austrian Embassy in Paris, 1810 (1897).

¡A por los títeres!

La feria madrileña imita a Petruskha.

Diseño de Alexandre Benois para Petrushka, 1911.

So where does Silvio Berlusconi stand on organ-grinders?

Unfortunately Alan Friedman’s excellent authorised bio, My Way, leaves us none the wiser.

Unattributed caricature from

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