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Karl Bryullov – Svetlana Guessing on her Future, 1836

“Svetlana” was a Romantic poem by Vasily Zhukovsky. The story is about  a girl named Svetlana, who tried to guessing her future on Christmas Eve. She used mirror and candles, like is shown on the painting ( that’s traditional Russian way of guessing).

But then – yes, we’re speaking about Romantic poem – some evil forces arose, and Svetlana sunk into the depths of folkloric nightmare.