Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin is delighted with the people, with the soldiers. When you ask him in alarm, what will happen next? He says: "Bourgeois republic!" And he adds: "Capitalist Republic." Everything that he perceives from Maxim Gorky is joyful to him. And the city of science, and the temples of art, and that the people will study, will begin to live well. All this is beautiful, all this is a bourgeois republic!

#MikhailPrishvin April 1917
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