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I guess im doing a "the Capitans Daughter" series of illustrations maybe

Суд Пугачева, 1875, Василий Перов  Pugachev`s Judgement, 1875, Vasily Perov

“The struggle against creation will therefore be without mercy and without ethics, and the only salvation lies in extermination. 'The passion for destruction is a creative passion.' Bakunin’s burning words on the subject of the revolution of 1848 in his Confession vehemently proclaim this pleasure in destruction. 'A feast without beginning and without end,' he says. In fact, for him as for all who are oppressed, the revolution is a 'feast', in the religious sense of the word. Here we are reminded of the French anarchist Cœurderoy, who, in his book Hurrah, or the Cossack Revolution, summoned the hordes of the north to lay waste to the whole world. He also wanted to 'apply the torch to my father’s house' and proclaimed that the only hope lay in the human deluge and in chaos. Rebellion is grasped, throughout these manifestations, in its pure state, in its biological truth. That is why Bakunin with exceptional perspicacity was the only one of his period to declare war on science, the idol of his contemporaries. Against every abstract idea he pleaded the cause of the complete man, completely identified with his rebellion. If he glorifies the brigand leader of the peasant rising, if he chooses to model himself on Stenka Razin and Pugachev, it is because these men fought, without either doctrine or principle, for an ideal of pure freedom. Bakunin introduces into the midst of revolution the naked principle of rebellion. 'The tempest and life, that is what we need. A new world, without laws, and consequently free.’” - Albert Camus, on Bakunin in 'The Rebel'

"Pugachev's Rebellion (also called the Peasants' War or Cossack Rebellion) of 1773–1775 was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in the Russian Empire after Catherine II seized power in 1762. It began as an organized insurrection of Yaik Cossacks headed by Yemelyan Pugachev, a disaffected ex-lieutenant of the Imperial Russian Army, against a background of profound peasant unrest and war with the Ottoman Empire."

Elizabeth: "Oh, you poor thing. How tormenting."

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When you're cracking a 2012 Puga with your bois & suddenly there's a snek. Thanks for sharing this Kyle. #hangar24 #pugachev #pugachevscobra #bba #stout #snake #snek #bourbonbeer