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:22:05
Mother!
:22:15
Canova!
:22:17
What an elevated approach to art!
:22:20
What feel for the material!
:22:24
How wonderful!
:22:28
He is a true heir
to the masters of antiquity!

:22:32
Canova almost married my mother
:22:35
Was your mother a sculptress?
:22:38
Yes, in Rome
:22:40
In Rome?
Your mother was a sculptress?

:22:44
In this Canova collection,
there are even sculptures...

:22:49
...that Tsar Alexander bought
from the wife...

:22:52
Of Napoleon?
:22:54
Yes, it was 1815,
I was at the Congress of Vienna

:22:58
What were you doing there?
:23:00
- I was a diplomat
- A diplomat?

:23:03
This collection was the object
of a harsh dispute

:23:08
Look where we are now!
:23:12
Is this a dream?
:23:15
Maybe, maybe...
:23:19
I don't know about you,
but I'm wide awake!

:23:26
It's amazing
how well I speak Russian!

:23:31
Yes, quite well...
:23:32
Who was that small man?
Wasn't that Pushkin?

:23:39
- Good day
- Good day

:23:42
Is that your great poet?
Your beloved one?

:23:45
I read him in French.
Nothing special

:23:49
Sir
:23:51
My God, how touchy you are!
:23:54
Pardon me!
:23:58
I'm sorry if I've offended
your nationalist sympathy


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