His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), were to have a...
At the age of 15, this conceptualist artist found himself in the workshop of Komar and Melamid, under whose influence he began creating works that rethink the essence of modern art. ‘I am not Jasper Johns’, 1980 Sreda obuchenia Albert's favorite trick is to take a well-known work, c...
• Transfiguration of Jesus, 1408 H-J Alexei Harlamoff (1840–1925) Painter, portraitist • Literary Pursuits of a Young Lady, 1870 Viktor Hartmann (1834–1873) Painter, ornamentist, architect, Russian Revival style artist • Naval Russia's pavilion at the 1973 World Fair, design Ale...
In his description of the work, Bogomaz quotes the words of Jesus on the cross: “Forgive them, for they not what they do.” “Two thousand years have passed, and yet we still can’t stop doing evil,” Bogomaz writes. The work was occasioned by Good Friday. Here we give our reade...
A fourteen-year-old girl dressed in white sneakers and a white tank top, sitting on a bench in the yard of her house on an ordinary summer day. It all looks ordinary, but there is one catch: the girl is dead. A fragment of a cluster bomb, which the Russians dropped on Kharkiv on...
Above the main entryway a giant statue of Nicholas strides into the future, with his son in his arms and his wife and their daughters behind him. Inside, depictions of other saints cover the walls all the way to the distant top, where a portrait of a dark-browed, angry Jesus stares ...
Chief amongst them was Jesus Salazar Velásquez, the Venezuelan ambassador to Russia who voiced his support for “Russia and the country’s fight for a just world without the hegemony of the ‘collective West.’” From the U.S., the pro-Russian communist Haz Al-Din, and the German ...
Under it there is a stone on which the footprints of Jesus Christ are imprinted: He left them after the resurrection. I’ve seen them myself. But the chapel is locked. It’s old, built in seventeen hundred something, and the boys have made a new roof for it.” Next to the chapel,...
NikonNikon, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1687. In the mid-17th century the Russian Orthodox patriarchNikoncame into violent conflict with the RussiantsarAlexis. Nikon, pursuing the ideal of a theocratic state, attempted to establish the primacy of the Orthodox church over the state...