Russian Orthodox
Glossary term
/ˈrʌʃ.ən ˈɔː.θə.dɒks/
Ecclesiastical pedigree claimed for Vagus’s plywood triptych, though the execution is so poor that even its figures require guesswork.
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Connections
Who uses the word
- Rasputin ← character glossary (1 passage)
From the books (1 passage)
…of turning and polishing; and also a triptych, painted in acrylic on a plywood veneer, purportedly in the Russian Orthodox tradition, although so poorly conceived and executed as to afford little clue whom the Tolstoyan figures thereon depicted were supposed to represent; Rasputin with aristocratic handmaidens, I was moved to suggest to myself.