Friday, 30 October 2026

Latest

In this dress in 1936-37 Maria Petrovna Lilina, wife of Konstantin Stanislavsky, played Countess Vronskaya in the Moscow Art Theatre's production of "Anna Karenina"

Books · Moscow · Museums · People

In this dress in 1936-37 Maria Petrovna Lilina, wife of Konstantin Stanislavsky, played Countess Vronskaya in the Moscow Art Theatre's production of "Anna Karenina"

In this dress in 1936-37 Maria Petrovna Lilina, wife of Konstantin Stanislavsky, played Countess Vronskaya in the Moscow Art Theatre's production of "Anna Karenina". The dress was Lilina's personal property, part of her mother's legacy, brought from Paris in her youth,

By Alexandr Radayev
After the first Impressionist exhibition, a journalist from Le Figaro wrote that the paintings of Monet, Renoir, Morisot and Sisley made him think of a monkey to whom the public ought to present a basket of flowers

In the Press · Art · Observations · Paris · Humour

After the first Impressionist exhibition, a journalist from Le Figaro wrote that the paintings of Monet, Renoir, Morisot and Sisley made him think of a monkey to whom the public ought to present a basket of flowers

Evidently, this was an allusion to Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps's painting "The Monkey Painter" of 1833. Nearly 150 years have passed since that exhibition, and with every private view new talented primates remain in the shadow of their many masterpieces. It must be said, though, that the

By Alexandr Radayev
See all