Isaac Israilevich Brodsky (1883-1939) was one of the foremost, most acclaimed and most fame-showered creators of paintings about the life of Lenin and of canvases on the history of the Party

Isaac Israilevich Brodsky (1883-1939) was one of the foremost, most acclaimed and most fame-showered creators of paintings about the life of Lenin and of canvases on the history of the Party. To his brush belong such monumental works as “Lenin Addressing the Workers of the Putilov Factory Rally in May 1917” (1929), “Lenin in the Smolny” (1930), “The Execution of the 26 Baku Commissars” (1925), “At the Bier of Ilyich” (1925), and “The Ceremonial Opening of the Second Congress of the Comintern in the Uritsky Palace in Leningrad” (1920-1924), which won high praise from Repin but was for many years hidden from the people's eyes, since with the passage of time ever more enemies of the people kept appearing on the canvas beside the leader.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Isaac Israilevich Brodsky (1883-1939) was one of the foremost, most acclaimed and most fame-showered creators of paintings about the life of Lenin and of canvases on the history of the Party

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s