Submitting this for my pal Yojimbo (we both enjoyed the article) … who is in Italy … and he better send me some damned cannolis.
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5000 words.
The paintings used as illustrations in this article are taken from the website of Ilya Glazunov and can be seen full-size in HD here and here. Russia Insider published a long profile of him and his work in 2016. Much of his work, both paintings and books, dealt extensively with the Jewish role in Russian history.
A Jewish bolshevik disrupting an Easter midnight service. Detail from a larger monumental painting by Ilya Glazunov.