What You Need to Know About Fabergé Easter Eggs
During one of my vacations, I got an unexpected treat – the opportunity to see two amazing collections of Fabergé Easter eggs in two days. One...
Alexandra Kiely 17 April 2022
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Luxury and Mystery – The Row About Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs
There is something magical about the Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs. They are a symbol of the ultimate luxury, but also of an era long gone and...
Joanna Kaszubowska 17 April 2022
Portraits of Catherine the Great, Empress of all the Russias
Catherine the Great (1729-1796) ruled almost the entire second half of the 18th century. Her reign was very successful on the world arena and gave...
Elizaveta Ermakova 25 March 2022
Why Political Actionism Is So Popular in Russia
The sources of Russian political actionism are in the unofficial art of the 1960s. Nonconformism emerged in a country where kitschy socialist realism...
Diana Sadretdinova 7 March 2022
Want to Insult Your Enemy? Get Inspired by the Badass Zaporozhian Cossacks!
There are dozens if not hundreds of forged documents in the history of the world. They weren’t forged just for fun. Some of them were the basis...
Zuzanna Stańska 5 March 2022
Constructivism in Soviet Cinema
Constructivism originated in Russia in 1915 and its creators were Vladimir Tatlin and Alexander Rodchenko. It promoted using industrial assemblage...
Errika Gerakiti 17 February 2022
The Morozov Collection at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Fondation Louis Vuitton’s latest show offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the renowned Morozov collection in its entirety for the...
Louisa Mahoney 7 February 2022
Teapots and Dresses in the Service of the Russian Revolution
Over 100 years have passed since the October Revolution but this remarkable event still fascinates not only historians dealing with politics and...
Piotr Policht 26 January 2022
Genius of All the Art Forms: Mikhail Vrubel’s Fantastic Worlds
The place of Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910) in Russian art is exclusive and isolated. Legends already began to form around Vrubel during his lifetime. He...
Elizaveta Ermakova 20 January 2022
Puzzles with the Shade of Communism: 10 Great Soviet Mosaics in Russia
In the conditions of the rigid USSR system of control, impersonality of buildings was practically inevitable. However, there was one way of escape:...
Elizaveta Ermakova 11 January 2022
Masterpiece Story: Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red
Sergei Shchukin once said “If a picture gives you a psychological shock, buy it. It’s a good one.” And the Matisse painting I would like to...
Zuzanna Stańska 29 December 2021
Kandinsky’s Inspiration? Nature, Spirituality and Other Artists
Wassily Kandinsky – a lawyer turned painter, a painter turned lecturer, a green-fingered man for whom a house with garden was a curse (because...
Magda Michalska 16 December 2021
