As we work our way through an enormous cache of fascinating Russian Christian paintings which we are presenting in theGreat Russian Christian Art Series, we can't help but fall in love with some of them. Aboutthe series: As we learned about Russia's traditional faith, Russian Orthodox Christi...
• Portrait of Artist's Wife (1914) State Russian Museum. R Charles Radoff (1894–1986) Landscape painter, neo-impressionist • Mother Russia, 1968 Ilya Repin (1844–1930) History painter, realist, portraitist (see also: The Wanderers: Russian Landscape Paintings) • Barge Haulers on the...
28 Rublev’s serene, full-of-light paintings express the theme of the Jesus as the Light of the World and/or hope into His dominion. Moreover, the structure of the Church gave that aspiration to a spiritual life, as compared to the power that the Church later ended up being. Fulfilling...
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On 15 September 1974, the artists staged a show of paintings in a vacant lot in Moscow’s Belyayevo Forest. The authorities sicked police on the participants and attendees and destroyed the show with bulldozers. This crackdown on artistic expression triggered an international uproar, and the ...
The Soviet and Russian directors spearheading these flicks certainly didn’t hold back in terms of scale - thousands of extras were used during years of filming to create some of world cinema’s most iconic war films. 1. Alexander Nevsky (1938) One of the gems of world cinema, Alexander...
Society did not look favourably on unequal marriages, but many people in the mid-19th century still considered it a great way of improving one's financial situation and social status. This is what one of the most famous paintings by a leading genre artist, Fedotov, is about....
Russian billionaire who sued Sotheby’s for helping dupe him out of over $160m for da Vinci’s ‘Lost Leonardo’ and other paintings loses art fraud case BYThe Associated Press January 31, 2024 at 6:44 PM GMT+8 Russian billionaire art collector...
a 'wall' full of religious paintings. A priest performs some rituals behind it, invisible to the church-goers. However, the iconostasis opens at the pinnacle of the Mass.
Russians are fans of proverbs and masterfully juggle them in different situations. A foreigner who wants to know Russian as a native and to understand Russians and their “mysterious soul”, needs to know at least the basic proverbs. So, we’ll help you