Elizaveta Ermakova

A Russian historian herself, Elizaveta has a soft spot for Art (and not only the native one). Based in Moscow and trying to get as many people as possible to become Art lovers in every city she goes to.

Stories By Elizaveta Ermakova

19th Century

Russian History through the Eyes of Vasily Surikov
By Elizaveta ErmakovaJanuary 18, 2021
In the 19th century Russia historical painting was freed from formality and canons. We find a good example of this in the work of Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) who created historical paintings of deep philosophical content, many...
19th Century

The State Russian Museum Highlights
By Elizaveta ErmakovaJanuary 11, 2021
The State Russian Museum is the country’s first museum of Russian fine art. It represents the history of Russian culture for more than a thousand years and contains a collection of more than 400,000 objects. We...
Art State of Mind

The Art Office: Corporate Art Collections
By Elizaveta ErmakovaNovember 29, 2020
What is your first thought when you think about going to the bank? Or a big company office? I am sure that it is not connected to art at all. You imagine calls, queues, paperwork… But...
19th Century

Somewhere at Sea: Ivan Aivazovsky and his Marine Art
By Elizaveta ErmakovaNovember 13, 2020
Many artists painted the sea, but only Ivan Aivazovsky was completely devoted to it. Over his long life (1817-1900), he dedicated thousands of canvases to the sea. Sunsets and sunrises over the sea, storms, calm, shipwrecks,...
featured

Goya’s Ghosts: The Disasters of War Print Series
By Elizaveta ErmakovaOctober 28, 2020
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) is considered the founder of the national genre in Spain. He was talented in many areas: portraits, historical scenes, and more. But he is also known as the voice of dissatisfied people. He...
20th century

Puzzles with the Shade of Communism: 10 Great Soviet Mosaics in Russia
By Elizaveta ErmakovaOctober 12, 2020
In the conditions of the rigid USSR system of control, impersonality of buildings was practically inevitable. However, there was one way of escape: Soviet mosaics. Here are the 10 great Soviet mosaics in Russia. In 1925,...
19th Century

Painting of the Week: Firs Zhuravlev, A Fashionista Wife
By Elizaveta ErmakovaSeptember 20, 2020
Firs Zhuravlev’s realistic paintings show all aspects of Russian life. And we can imagine the scene from the picture A Fashionista Wife in the house next to us both in the 19th century and now! Firs...
Architecture

10 Most Beautiful Russian Art Nouveau Buildings
By Elizaveta ErmakovaJuly 19, 2020
“Beauty is our religion” said Mikhail Vrubel, one of Russia’s most famous Art Nouveau artists. The style of the fin de siècle acts as beauty’s assistant to influence the improvement of the world. However, Russian Art...
Baroque

King Drinks: Jacob Jordaens and the Feast of the Bean King
By Elizaveta ErmakovaJuly 17, 2020
Jacob Jordaens (1593 – 1678), a wonderful artist of the Baroque era, was keen on painting the scenes from peasants’ life. He first painted the famous feast of the bean king in the mid-1630s. Due to...
dailyart

Mona Lisa at the Battlefield: the History of Saving Art During World War II
By Elizaveta ErmakovaJuly 3, 2020
During walks through the halls of museums, few people think about how these art masterpieces were not always in their place. In turbulent war years, art, like the civilian population, had to be evacuated. How was...