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- Lamps...
empire, empire, empire!
I have no enthusiasm for it.
That style is too silly.
Don't forget
it was born under bonaparte.
Then it became fashionable here...
to the point of
becoming the national style...
to the detriment of its originality.
We battled Napoleon,
not the empire style.
Who are they?
Who are these people?
Petersburgers, of when the city
was no longer a capital.
It's better that way.
an ancient city like Moscow.
Not a chimera.
- Who are these people?
- Only if it's not impolite.
- No, they are friends.
Oleg Konstantinovich,
medical professor.
Lev Mikhailovich, actor.
Shouldn't they rise?
My European friend,
he is visiting Russia.
- My pleasure.
- He's european.
Medicine is a fine profession.
I haven't spoken for years.
Aside from my new accomplice.
Such a long time...
what is that odour?
Odour?
A curious odour.
Have you been
in Saint Petersburg long?
Yes, for one hour.
- And you came straight here?
- I had my reasons.
You must love art!
Are you interested in beauty
or just its representation?
No, marquis.
We're here to rest.
"Marquis"?
How do you rest?
Today, we've come together.
It smells of formaldehyde.
Formaldehyde.
Marquis,
I'll show you a splendid painting.
These men are emitting
a very strange odour.
Marquis, look at
the birth of john the baptist.
The marquis smells of formaldehyde.
Is he alive?
No, it's you.
I know this painting.
I saw it on my last visit here.
It comes from paris,
from the crozat collection.
Catherine II acquired it in 1772.
One of the earliest pieces
of the hermitage collection.
Such information is for specialists.
For us, detail is more interesting.
Look closely here.
A chicken and a cat
are in the foreground.
They are symbolic figures.
The chicken represents greed,
avarice...
the cat, cynicism and cruelty.
Cynicism and cruelty... the cat...
they are both
calmed by the birth of john.
How interesting.
Why is he dressed like that?
Cleopatra, for example...
what do you know of her?
Massimo stanzione...
cleopatra is on the same wall...
as the circumcision of christ
- What bothers you?
- Bothers me?
Right next to saint cecilia?
Can you imagine!
By carlo dolci!
And next to eastern still life!
- Why does that bother you?
- Don't argue, oleg.
As a catholic, that shocks me.
What do you think of wagner?
Who is wagner?
Oleg, he doesn't know wagner!
Wagner is that child
who behaved badly...
with my best friend, meyerbeer.
I have never listened to wagner.
- Broaden your horizons!
- That doctor is so insistent!
- But I'm not sick!
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