Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

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 ...

The famous Ballets Russes took Europe and the U.S. by storm during the early 20th century. It was the brainchild of one man, Sergei Diaghilev, who surprisingly wasn't a talented artist, composer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The art project has also been criticised by Russia's Orthodox Church itself. Vakhtang Kipshidze, a spokesman for Moscow Patriarch Kirill, told Ria Novosti news agency that symbols of Christianity ...

Cipolle look at watercolor paintings of mushrooms by artist Alexander Viazmensky at The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis on Dec. 2. Everyone needs an art friend. Art spaces can feel exclusive ...

Party of the Dead, a Russian protest art group, focuses on what they see as their country’s morbid obsession with “necrophilia” in politics and culture. They don skeletal masks and costumes ...