15 May
![Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1887)[9]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Azpd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F517574e9-bff2-4821-8764-e71c133881a2_1920x1006.jpeg "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1887)[9]")
Born in 1848 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter and illustrator.
Above: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1887.
Also, born in 1891, Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov:
Everything passes away-suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?