Oh-sissi - The Empress

“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”

(all photos are mine)

apartment of Fyodor Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg

Gustave Courbet - A Young Woman Reading (detail)

Straycats by Martin Leman, 1980

she is me i am her

I don’t know if she had been sumbited, but Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria.

Cat's love (and some brow cleaning service) 🩶

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They’ve had many lives and many ages: cats I’ve met in my time travels.