Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone … In Russia, one can only believe.

Fyodor Tyutchev Untitled quatrain (1866), translated by Anatoly Liberman
The illustrated Saint Petersburg Travel Book cover, with a woman beside a river, a navy cloth spine and a pink elastic band.

For your coffee table

Saint Petersburg

Travel Book

Louis Vuitton

Saint Petersburg in Kelly Beeman’s illustrations.

Cloth-bound · Six-colour printing

27.9 × 19 cm

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An open spread of Kelly Beeman’s illustrations, showing a woman beside a black horse in front of an ornate turquoise palace.

Some of my Instagram posts from Russia

A snowy Kamchatka lodge and birch trees glowing in low winter sunlight.Olga walking beneath a great orange-leaved oak beside the Tarkhany estate house in Russia.Olga watching autumn forest pass the window of a train crossing Russia.