This is a rare example of an historical theme in the art of Leon Wyczółkowski. The painting depicts Maryna Mniszech and her two-year-old son, Tsarevich Ivan, hiding in the snow from the army of the n...

Dmitry Zhilinsky often manifested his creative aspirations in portraiture. One of the idiosyncrasies of his art was his habit of depicting in the concrete not the fleeting, but the most important ele...

Timur Novikov often painted urbanscapes of Leningrad in his early period and this haunting image of the River Moika is filled wiith profound and poetic feelings. The uninhabited canal is seen through...

Banquet of Kings was painted one year before the outbreak of the First World War and many contemporaries regarded it as a form of prophecy or a frightening vision of the Apocalypse. Submerged in twil...

Pavel Filonov had a pantheistic relationship with the world. He believed that the animal and human worlds were once indivisible, when man and beast lived in harmonic unity. The artist regarded human ...