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For two decades, she was in charge of the cultural life of Moscow and then of the entire Soviet Union. She even managed to lift the Iron Curtain, if...

Hundreds of thousands of masterpieces of art were lost or disappeared during World War II. But sometimes they turn up in the most unexpected

Hundreds of thousands of masterpieces of art were lost or disappeared during World War II. But sometimes they turn up in the most unexpected places....

On May 2, 1955, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow opened an exhibition of masterpieces taken by Soviet troops from the Dresden Gallery after...

Russian anarchists developed the movement's philosophy not only in word, but also in deed: Mikhail Bakunin nearly staged a revolution with the help of Swiss watchmakers, while Pyotr Kropotkin made a daring escape from the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Few are the careers which begin under Joseph Stalin and end with Covid-19. Irina Antonova, who has died at the age of 98 from complications arising from the virus, joined the staff of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in 1945. Appointed director by Stalin’s successor, Nikita Khrushchev, in 1961, she held that post for the next 52 years – a tenure unparalleled by any major museum director in the world. The curatorial coups that Antonova pulled off during that tumultuous half-century ...