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The warmth of God's Mercy embraces a lost soul that, after a long wandering, returns home

2 April, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

Black silk fan with gold embroidery, 1880.

the light snow gives off at night is one of my favorite things in the world

Elements of the original garland from Empress Eugénie of the French’s ‘Feuilles de Groseillier’ parure, by Bapst (1855).

The Empress Eugénie Tiara, by Gabriel Lemonnier (1853).

belle epoque broche de diamantes 1910

page 189 of “A history of hand-made lace : dealing with the origin of lace, the growth of the great lace centres, the mode of manufacture, the methods of distinguishing and the care of various kinds of lace” (1900)

Anna Pavlova

Violet Morene photographed by Bassano, August 1910