Collage 580

Their samovar is tipping over – life as they know it is tipping over. Helen Bezukhov dies unexpectedly. Is this a wake up call? Did anyone like her anyway? Tolstoy surely did not. Her death is a minor point in the action. Frankly, we are not that upset over it either. -- Chris




Christiane Carney Johnson
from page 415-416, volume 2 of original text
collage, Russian chocolate wrapper, chalk, dried flowers from Yasnaya Polyana
made 9/2/11
Pevear/Volokhonsky translation page 938-940