On the Eve of Apocalypse
oil
24 x 18
framed size: 28 x 22
This painting is dedicated to my great-grandmother Anna.
Anna and her husband lived in Siberia. They were a wealthy family from the upper class. In
1917, the Russian Revolution took place and civil war began. The communist Bolsheviks
who came to power killed the rich and took away their property. Anna survived, but she was
left alone, without a husband and without any money.
I don’t know exactly how my great-grandmother overcame this nightmare, but I know that
she continued to live alone, still living her life with dignity.
She didn’t ask for help, she offered it.
I know very little about her, but that doesn’t make her resilience any less significant.
She fell from a rich and predictable life into a poor and destitute one, but remained a person
of dignity and faith.
The background on which Anna is depicted is a symbolic image of her native Siberian city
as it was before the Revolution, on the eve of Apocalypse.
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