The Portrait
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The Portrait is a short story by Russia author Nikolai Gogol. It is the story of a young artist, Andrey Petrovich Chartkov, who stumbles upon a terrifyingly lifelike portrait in an art shop and is one of Gogols’ most demonic of tales, hinting at some of his earlier works such as St. John's Eve (short story).
The story opens describing a typical Petersburg starving artist shop in Shchukin Court. Even today one can find vendors selling large numbers of works from unknown artists, just as it...
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