23.01.2017

Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of All Russia

Crowned as the first царь всея Руси (Tsar of all Russia)…
01.01.2017

The Lost Library of Ivan the Terrible (part 1)

The territory of Kolomenskoye was once the residence of the Russian princes….
30.12.2016

The Lost Library of Ivan the Terrible (part 2)

Read the first part of our article about the lost library of Ivan the Terrible…
08.12.2016

A. S. Griboyedov, Poet, Writer and Diplomat

The Woes of Wit…
24.10.2016

Alexander Nevsky (1220-1263)

Более 700 лет назад берега Невы (over 700 years ago), the banks of the Neva River…
21.10.2016

Ilya Repin and The Volga Boatmen

Илья Ефимович Репин (Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1844-1930), a leading Russian painter and sculptor of the Peredvizhniki artistic school.
24.02.2016

Alexander Sokolov “I am”

Alexander Sokolov (1941-2009) was a Russian sculptor. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka street presented a retrospective of his work called “I am”. His […]
24.02.2016

Natalia Nesterova, a Modern Russian Artist

Наталья Нестерова (Natalia Nesterova) was born in 1944, in a family of architects. In 1968, she graduated from the Surikov Institute. And almost immediately, she made […]
24.02.2016

Erik Bulatov, Russian Sots-art Artist

Эрик Булатов (Erik Bulatov) русский классик соц-арта (is a classic Russian sots-art artist). He was born in Sverdlovsk in 1933 and now he lives and works […]
17.02.2016

The Boyars’Beards

Two boyars of the name of Buynosov and Kurnosov lived in Moscow. Their names have been famous for several generations already, their houses were beautiful and […]