Just like Peter the Great founded St Petersburg and created a new secular Russia in the early eighteenth century, the Bolshevik government after the 1917 revolution wanted to build a new capital refl...

I was greatly impressed by the first work that I saw by Sergei Sergeyev. This was his portrait Vika (1977), a small oil painting on canvas). Its powerful mastery and close kinship to the old masters ...

Picasso My first encounter with modern art came in the third grade, in 1971, when my eyes fell on an issue of the UNESCO Courier that was entirely devoted to a sociological survey and called “Public ...

George Orwell, the author of 1984, is a name that hardly needs any introduction in Russia. Many of the words that he created have now entered the Russian language: n ovoyaz for Newspeak and dvoemysli...

The ANT-20 Maxim Gorky was a Soviet propaganda plane constructed in 1934. The largest plane in the world, the Maxim Gorky was designed and named after the famous Russian Realist writer by Soviet airc...