Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko, Rat on a Tray
“ VI The ambassadors of future art arose from their knees, shook dust off their trousers, removed the spoons from their button holes, thrusting them into their pockets, and timidly, one after another, walked out into a corridor. ”
Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko, World Fiction (1922)
“ As a kindly satirist and portrayer of the lighter side of Russian nature, Arcadie Avertchenko stands alone today. His genial spirit wells entirely from within, because there is nothing in his circumstances to foster or produce it. He is one of the group of Russian refugees in Constantinople. He was the editor of a political weekly in Petrograd, “Satirikon,” which the Bolshevists tried time after time to suppress. ”
Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko, Rat on a Tray
“ Nothing restricts a man like paint does. No use of it, as it just confuses and restricts. I knew a man who was so restricted by paint, that he had to move to another city ...- What do you mean?- Yes, very simple. Mildyaev is his name. Where is your picture?- Here it hangs. Looks very fresh and clever, does it?II To give a credit to the young maestro with a pink rash, he has escaped paint in the most positive way: on the wall there hung a black metal tray, in the middle of which with some adhesive material a small dead rat was attached. ”
