Alexander Borisov – the first artist to depict the Far North in paintings
All his life, he was possessed by two passions: painting and the Far North. Once, it almost cost him his life.
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All his life, he was possessed by two passions: painting and the Far North. Once, it almost cost him his life.
There’s a widespread myth that Tsar Ivan the Terrible blinded the architects Postnik and Barma after they had completed work on St. Basil’s Cathedral...
The British Royal Collection has more than 600 pieces of art with Russian roots, from precious Fabergé eggs to enormous vases made of natural
Camp Russia: On Zakhar Prilepin’s “The Monastery” Zakhar Prilepin THE LAST TIME ONE of Zakhar Prilepin’s novels was translated into English, the 2014 Winter Olympics had just wrapped up in Sochi, and Putin was pretending to look the other way while his insignia-free soldiers marched into Ukraine. That April, Prilepin’s fast-paced, anti-government protest novel Sankya was published with a foreword by Alexei Navalny, himself no fan of the Russian state. In it, Navalny feted this young, relevant writer, and explained that Prilepin’s novel could tell the reader more about Russia than...