"As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd stay away."
- Hughes Mearns

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Baltics trip
Day 12 - 27th May - Kadrioru (Kadriorg) Art Museum, Tallinn; Estonia (Part 2)


Clock


Lot with Daughters. Wolfgang Krodel


The Martyrdom of St Stephen. Early 17th c.


Vase, 19th c.


Finding of Achilleus (Achilles) on the Island of Skyros, 2nd half of 17th c.


Karl Timoleon von Neff. Estonian Girl Feeding Chickens.
You'll notice the Russian - there're a lot of ethnic Russians in Estonia.


Johann Koler. Sunrise.
It looks like a bomb exploded.


Some cabinet of wonders


Johann Koler. Empress Maria Fyodorovna.


Portrait of a Lady, late 18th c.
She looks like a hobbit.


Scenes from the War against Napoleon in 1812


I forgot why I took this, but you can read about Aleksey Bogolyubov and Romantic landscape painting.


Aleksey Bogolyubov. Port of Tallinn. 1853


Ivan Kramskoy. Old Man With a Crutch. 1872.


Aleksander Rizzoni. Boys looting a Church Interior of a Church. Late 19th c.


Mikhail Clodt. Ploughmen in the Ukraine.


Rufim Sudkovsky. Odessa pier. 1885.


Yermilov. Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna. 1846


Double door. I don't see the point, given how close they are to teach other.


Palace rear




It was like a mini-Schönbrunn