Contemporary Lubok ( Segodnyashny lubok ) was a publishing house established by G. B. Gorodetsky shortly after the outbreak of the First World War (1914). Over a period of three months, it produced a...

At the turn of the century, the whole of Europe was swept by a wave of interest in primitive art. African and Asian folk art was discovered and aestheticized, and Russia was no exception. Unlike thei...

“Constructivism” is often mistakenly employed outside Russia as a synonym for all Soviet avant-garde architecture of the 1920s. Strictly speaking, the term only applies to the activities of one profe...

Mikhail Matiushin ensured his place in the history of Russian art when he wrote the music for the revolutionary opera Victory Over the Sun . Victory Over the Sun destroyed all classical notions about...