Cats have been a common sight in different channels of art for a long time. That’s why museums dedicated to feline art are popular stops, proving ...
Merve Parla 8 August 2021
Al Green famously sang Let's Stay Together but artists are notorious for tempestuous relationships that end badly. But hey, it’s Valentine's - ...
Candy Bedworth 14 February 2021
Elisabeth of Russia (1709-1761) was the most beautiful empress from the Romanov dynasty. Contemporaries called her "the sparkle of Peter the Great" ...
Kateryna Martynova 12 August 2020
All of us watched Disney cartoons in our childhood and many people re-watch them even into adulthood. However, the original plots appeared in early ...
Kateryna Martynova 3 August 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 ...
Elizaveta Ermakova 19 July 2020
Anna Pavlova, a Russian ballerina, was highly independent for her times. She formed her own company and choreographed her own performances. She toured the world for twenty years and introduced ballet to other parts of the world. Pavlova was so famous that she was honored with a dessert named after her, it is called the Pavlova cake!
Anuradha Sroha 8 July 2020
Perestroika and reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev affected all spheres of life in Russia. As a result, unofficial artists in Moscow felt the full ...
Elizaveta Ermakova 27 June 2020
Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) was a Russian painter, co-founder of the artistic movement Mir Iskusstva and well known for his watercolors ...
Kateryna Martynova 22 June 2020
When you think of 19th-century Russia, images of Anna Karenina with black furs and white diamonds may come to mind. The lives of the wealthy ...
James W Singer 5 April 2020
This building from the art-nouveau era is a sight for sore eyes! Pertsov's house is an interesting example of Russian classical folk influences ...
Elizaveta Ermakova 20 March 2020
Can you name some female artists, and from Russia in particular? It’s difficult even for those who are really into art. This article tells the ...
Kateryna Martynova 6 March 2020
