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Arrival of Erté in Paris
In 1912, Roman Tyrtov arrived in Paris - the son of Admiral Peter Tyrtov, a descendant of a family that had served the Russian Navy for generations. He chose a profession that his family considered disgraceful: fashion d…
The Birth of the Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of China was born as a project of the Comintern. In the summer of 1921, thirteen delegates gathered at the first congress in Shanghai; organizational and financial assistance was provided by emissarie…
"The Book of the Marquise" - The Pinnacle of Russian Erotic Book Art
"The Book of the Marquise" remains the pinnacle of Russian erotic book art and the main bibliophilic myth of the early 20th century.
The concept belonged to the Austrian critic and publisher Franz Blei (1871, 1942), who…
Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar arrived in Paris in January 1923 - a nineteen-year-old Russian from Kyiv with almost no ballet training. Bronislava Nijinska, with whom Lifar studied in Kyiv, called her students to Diaghilev's "Russian Balle…
Alexander Deineka: The Body as a Formula of the Era
He was born in 1899 in Kursk, in a railway worker's family, and all his paintings will be permeated with this sense of movement - of rails, speed, flying figures. After attending the Kharkiv Art School and serving in the…
The Book of Russian Grief: A Martyr's List of the Right
In 1908, the first issue of a publication was released in St. Petersburg, which was to become one of the most unique monuments of the late empire. "The Book of Russian Grief" is a documentary-literary collection dedicate…
Grigory Glyukman: A 'Modern Old Master' from Vitebsk
Grigory Glyukman was born on October 25, 1898, in the Vitebsk province and taught himself to draw until the age of nineteen. In 1917, he moved to Moscow and enrolled in the School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture…
The 'Russia' Brand: How Riga Put the Empire on Bicycles
On Brivibas Street, 137 in Riga, there still stands a house with a weather vane in the shape of a bicycle. Here, the 'Russia' factory operated - the first industrial production of 'two-wheeled horses' in the Russian Empi…
Publication of The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales
The publication of The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Tales, released in 1978 by the American Viking Press, combined two distant plots: the fate of a Moscow graphic artist and the biography of the widow of an American …
Hillwood Museum in Washington, D.C.
Hillwood Museum (Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens) is a museum in Washington, D.C. It boasts one of the finest collections of Russian art in the West.
The museum's collection was assembled by American heiress Marjorie …
