After graduating from the Art School of Kazan in 1900, Fechin went to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg under Ilya Repin, a leading artist of the Russian Realist movement. During ...
Joseph Stalin was no great lover of the arts, unlike other Communist leaders, but he recognised their power to stir his ...
An exploration of the historical and contemporary dynamics of the Russian Orthodox Church and its evolving relationship with ...
A painting by famous Russian landscape painter Arkhip Kuinzhi ... He created a special type of romantic landscape based on a realistic perception of the world transformed by the artist’s ...