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The Picture is a 1979 novel by the Russian Soviet writer Daniil Granin. Its original title is Картина (Kartina).The book's protagonist, Sergey Losev, is a mayor of the small provincial town, Lykov, in the Soviet 70's. While on business trip in Moscow he visits an art exposition where he by pure chance through a Double Take notices a landscape named "By the River" which reminds him of a certain view in Lykov. Later it turns out that an artist, Astakhov, indeed once lived in the town and painted that landscape with a house, willow and Zhmurkin back-water at that very place. After the exposition is over Losev visits the widow of the now deceased painter and convinces her to pass the picture over to the town of Lykov. She caves in and grants it for free although he offered her a sum well below its actual value. Losev then brings the painting to the town and it is placed in the school biology classroom because the view from its window is very similar to the landscape.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })However very soon it turns out that the house depicted in the landscape is going to be demolished and a certian industrial installment (a production uint of the computer-manufacturing firm) is planned to be erected on its place. Losev, becoming aware that his rather non-descript Lykov has a unique chance to become famous because of a combination of the picture and the landscape it shows including the house, starts to intrigue in bureaucratic spheres to manoeuver the upper echelons into dropping the plans to demolish the old architectural monument transferring the filial to the other location in Lykov. His manipulations at times find support with several local activists (while the bulk of Lykov's population is pretty apathetic), at times those activists do not see through his cunning ploys and resent him believing that he is actually for demolishing of the ancient building. The fate of the building and the nearby willow also in the painting remains suspended.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Advice Backfire: Losev urges Roginsky to write an office memo about how the building should definitely be preserved. Roginsky obeys however later he also sends a letter in the paper which Losev would by no means want him to do as he prefers to work within the bureacracy and does not want to attract publicity. If Losev did not convince him to write a memo in strong expressions Roginsky would not send a letter. In the end that letter serves as one of the factors helping to secure the historic house however the standing of Losev is worsened by the newspaper publication as he comes out as a somewhat disloyal person to Uvarov. | |
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The '70s: Soviet style in the small provincial town. Not very sordid in the terms of free love. Polyester is not mentioned either | |
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