Why Russian art? “What we’re really about is getting ... “Russia has such a long recorded history,” said Pysno. “Discovering 20th Century Russian Masters: Nicolai Fechin” sits on ...

This course combines history of art with the study of Russian, a language of strategic importance spoken by people across several countries and large diasporic communities, including in the UK. The ...

They ascended the throne at the end of one of the most critical periods of Russian history, known as the Time ... brought European neoclassical art and architecture to Russia, and French culture ...

The Russian Museum boasts the world's largest collection of Russian art. Its main exhibition space has been housed in the neoclassical Mikhailovsky Palace since 1895. The Russian Museum also ...

They were also key figures in the history of Russian contemporary art who put Moscow Conceptualism, which reacted against Soviet Socialist Realism, on the international map and brought a Western ...

Last minutes of False Dmitry, by Carl Wenig He claimed to be the heir to the Russian throne, but history has not been kind to the man now known as “False Dmitry I.” After marching into the ...

The phrase “worthy of Aivazovsky’s brush” was coined by the writer Anton Chekhov in his 1897 play Uncle Vanya, solidifying the artist’s lasting importance to the history of Russian art. Aivazovsky’s ...

Unlike Western European countries, Russian art skipped the Renaissance. The Middle Ages in Russia lasted from the end of the 10th century, when early Russia adopted Christianity, until the turn of ...

I first visited the looted museums of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, in May 2024. At the time, my team at the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit and I were beginning an ...