Оглавление
Oleg Vasiljevitch Filatov. The Unknown Tsesarevitch. Reminiscences and Considerations on V. K. Filatov’s Life and Times
THE Preface
Chapter I. SOURCE
Chapter II. RELATIONS WITH OTHER PEOPLE
Chapter III. THE NORTH STAR
Chapter IV. THE ROYAL BLOOD MUST BE EXAMINED
APPENDICES
APPENDIX I
Appendix II
Appedix III
Appendix IV
List of the archives and institutions of the Russian Federation inquired after Filatov, V.K. as well as bibliography and sources. V
Bibliography and sources VI
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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(Reminiscences and Considerations on V.K. Filatov’s Life and Times)
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Every time I tried to sketch him, he became shy and went away to the garden. He also did not like to be photographed. He would sit in the shadow and the photos were indistinct. Once we (Oleg, Vasily Ksenofontovich and I) were mending the roof, covering it with a new roofing-felt. When our work was nearing completion, I managed to take his photo, because being lame he could not rapidly descend from the ladder. Feeling confused he smiled and went on repeating: ‘Now, now!’
I did not draw pictures of only Vasily Ksenofontovich. I would go to the Volga, look at the thick, branchy trees growing along the river and at villages resembling clusters of mushrooms. They seemed something ancient. (Water, the river bank, a burning buoy). As soon as you wanted to put them on paper, you understood how difficult and mysterious it is and yet at the same time, surprisingly simple
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