Boris Vasilyevich Zvorikin
Boris Vasilyevich Zvorikin, born on October 1, 1872, was a Russian illustrator and one of the leading masters of the "Neo-Russian style" in book graphics. He actively used elements of ancient Russian miniatures, ornament…
The Library of Congress and the Yudin Collection
In the spring of 1907, an unusual cargo arrived in Washington: about 80,000 volumes from distant Krasnoyarsk. Thus, the collection of merchant Gennady Vasilyevich Yudin became the foundation of the Slavic fund of the Lib…
Murder of Voykov at Warsaw Station
On June 7, 1927, at the main station in Warsaw, nineteen-year-old Russian émigré Boris Koverda shot the Soviet envoy to Poland, Pyotr Voykov. The choice of victim was not random. Voykov was part of the Ural Council's lea…
Astrakhan Cap
This crown in the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin looks almost excessive: gold, intricate carving, enamel, a scattering of gemstones, and a heavy sable trim at the bottom. The cap was made in 1627 in the Kremlin wor…
Murder of Grand Dukes as Revenge for Rosa Luxemburg
On January 15, 1919, in Berlin, Freikorps volunteers killed Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, leaders of the newly formed Communist Party of Germany. Luxemburg's body was thrown into the Landwehr Canal. The Bolsheviks …
Brooklyn Fabergé
Naum Nikolaevsky was arrested in Moscow in 1969. The stonecutter sold Fabergé to foreign diplomats - but the Fabergé was his own.
During the arrest, they seized a coachman, a troika, two hippos, a cat, and a golden samo…
Vasily Sigorsky: Twenty-Two Years of the Moscow Poem
Vasily Sigorsky: twenty-two years of the Moscow poem.
He was born in Chita in 1902, but from the early 1910s lived in Vologda - and from childhood he was friends with Varlam Shalamov; he carried this friendship througho…
Kondakov's 'Facial Iconographic Original'
Kondakov's 'Facial Iconographic Original'
St. Petersburg, 1905. The Committee for the Care of Russian Iconography, established by imperial decree, publishes a work that is nearly impossible to find in private hands today…
Yuliy (Jules) Stepanovich Meyer
Yuliy (Jules) Stepanovich Meyer (+ 1914) was a bookbinder of French origin who worked in St. Petersburg. His figure stands somewhat apart among the renowned capital bookbinders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: …
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Zimmerwald Delegates
In the autumn of 1915, thirty-eight socialists from eleven countries gathered in the Swiss village of Zimmerwald. The adopted manifesto demanded peace without annexations and reparations and declared war to be a matter o…
