Participants of action

Participants of the action devoted to celebration of 175-th anniversary from the day of birth of the austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, in the masks of animals fight in an impromptu ring, in Lvov, on Thursday, January 27, 2011. Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (27 January 1836 – 9 March 1895) was an Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name. During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well-known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English. Photo by Petr Zadorozhny / UNIAN