Konstantin Makovsky, Russian
Mother Reading Article on How to Spend Quality Time With Your Kids, ca. 1907
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here (Google translated), here (Google translated), and here (Google translated), perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Russian Wikipedia page has more).
/// Olya deeply resents her young brother.
Pesky Kolya she’d happily smother.
He is eight— she’s twice that,
and she can’t lose the brat.
Strangers always assume she’s his mother.
/// On this bench she was planning to meet
with the cute boy on whom she is sweet.
But with Kolya she’s stuck.
Now her date’s out of luck.
Olya sullenly seethes in defeat.
/// Their mother’s so deeply depressed
that she can’t leave her bed to get dressed.
So, with zero aplomb,
Olga’s surrogate Mom
to her brother, the ultimate pest.
/// And now Olya is always uptight.
The half-siblings do nothing but fight.
Why must they pay the price,
for their mother’s one vice—
her addiction to Turkish Delight.