Historic Painting: Maslenitsa by Boris Kustodiev, 1919.
This amazing painting depicts the Russian winter holiday festival just before Lent.
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Interiors: Garden Court, Palace Hotel, San Francisco.
This is one of the central features of the grand Edwardian-era hotel, completed in 1909.