re: #236 Mostly sane, most of the time.

Pushkin’s daughter.

Wasn’t she beautiful?

And, culturally, Russian.

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Lovely.

I used to know a gentleman in the SCA who said he wanted to do Italian Renaissance, but felt it looked stupid, since he was black. Then he saw portraits of some of the sixteenth century Medici bastards, and figured, if they could wear doublets, he could damn well wear a doublet.