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Updated: May 21, 2025

Presently, however, he decided that this was not the real object of the visit; and asked, with a change of tone: "Well, have you some new work for me? Some copying?" "I've got some new work for you, certainly. But not copying." "What then?" "Well this. I want you to leave here for Moscow, with me, in five days; and prepare to take Serov's place in the new Conservatoire." "What!"

Margaret Horton Potter - The Genius

On the walls of the Markovitch dining-room all kinds of pictures were hung old family photographs yellow and dusty, old calendars, prints of ships at sea, and young men hanging over stiles, and old ladies having tea, photographs of the Kremlin and the Lavra at Kieff, copies of Ivan and his murdered son and Serov's portrait of Chaliapine as Boris Godounov.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Secret City