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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...