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Sculpture
Afrasiyab & Manizheh
Veronica Shimanovskaya ·
Turanian Princess Manizheh falls in love with Iranian knight Bizhan, which is a Parthian version of the famous story of Romeo and Juliet who could not be together because of their origin.
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Sculpture
Zahhāk & Jamshid
Veronica Shimanovskaya ·
Zahhak's story in the Shahnameh is rather similar to Goethe's Faust. In the Shahnameh he is a symbol of tyranny and evil.
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