• courier8377 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 days ago

    It goes so hard, have you seen the pictures putatively used for inspiration? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition#Hartmann's_pictures

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      4 days ago

      Oh no, I don't think I ever had! It's too bad most of them are lost, but the ones they recorded are cool as hell

      • courier8377 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 days ago

        Looking into it it seems like there is no way of knowing what the historical gate actually looked like. It's kinda interesting to compare the drawing mussorgsky used to the soviet-reconstructed gate