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First row – Guard Staff Sergeant, VN Stepanova: 20 kills, Guard Sgt JP Belousova: 80 kills, Guard Sgt AE Vinogradova: 83 kills.

Second row – Guard Lieutenant EK Zhibovskaya: 24 kills, Guard Sgt KF Marinkin: 79 kills, Guard Sgt OS Marenkina: 70 kills.

Third row – Guard Lieutenant NP Belobrova: 70 kills, Lieutenant N. Lobkovsky: 89 kills, Guard Lieutenant VI Artamonova: 89 kills, Guard Staff Sergeant MG Zubchenko: 83 kills.

Forth row – Guard Sergeant, NP Obukhova: 64 kills, Guard Sergeant, AR Belyakova 24 kills.

She was one of the deadliest snipers of World War II, and is regarded as one of the deadliest snipers of all time. Over the course of one year (June 1941-June 1942) she racked up a count of 309 kills, 36 of which were enemy snipers. Her prescence in the picture alone would have brought the total number of kills from 755 to 1064.

• Wearing a black-ribbon headband upon a soft bed of curls

• Deciding to prioritize spending time in or around nature, and respecting it whilst doing so

• Making sure you never feel as though a wish is “too big”

• Dancing through life as gracefully as possible, speaking words of love to animals and plants, dabbing herbal essential oils upon your neck before drifting off to dreamland

• Writing down your dreams in pink and blue ink

• Sporting soft peasant blouses, a mauve lip, lightly rouged cheeks, and flowy skirts

first drafts are for making it exist

second drafts are for making it functional

“Lilith’s name is etymologically related to the Sumerian word ‘lil’ (wind), not to the Hebrew word ‘laylah’ (night), as was long supposed; it is also translated as wind-storm and screech owl. Among her many names: Astarte, Lamashtu, Labartu, Lillake, Lilit, Lilithu, Mahalat, Abyzu, Ailo, Ardat Lili, Broxa, Gelou, Lalla, Ptrotk, Ostara or Eostre (the Goddess of Easter lilies), Belit-Ili, Belili and Baalat (‘Divine Lady’ to the Caananites.) Though some also confuse her with Lilu, the lilu-demons were actually male. By the same token, though Lilith is frequently accused of being a child-killer, it was the lilu, not the lilitu demon, which preyed on children.” 

- Deborah Grenn-Scott, Lilith’s Fire: Reclaiming Our Sacred Lifeforce

Isabel Blankenzee Photographed by Marina Murasheva for institue magazine

Portrait Of A Young Woman (1869) 

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