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During one of their joint journeys, in September and October 1903, Dmitry Stelletsky photographed Boris Kustodiev on the bridge over the River Volkhov, with the Novgorod Kremlin and the Sophia Bell Tower behind him. The photograph, together with other pictures from their expeditions, was donated by Kustodiev's heirs
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These photographs of St Sophia's Cathedral in Novgorod were taken by Boris Kustodiev in the autumn of 1903, during his journey to the North with Dmitry Stelletsky. In 1900 Stelletsky and Kustodiev made an expedition through the Kostroma Governorate, and in 1903 through the Russian North and the
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The Marble Palace is cramped. One understands this on seeing the collection, so familiar from its walls, in the halls of the Zilart museum. Stepping into the space of the new exhibition of the gift of Peter and Irene Ludwig, shown here in its entirety for the first time, I
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Marcus Aurelius advised retreating into oneself, for nowhere does a man withdraw more quietly. In the digest, for my part, I try to gather what has been published over the month while the memories are still fresh. So, the main things on the channel for August. The section on archaeology
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One of the more unusual and memorable art objects at Cosmoscow turned out, to my surprise, to be connected with Russian folk style: a panel of wooden Khokhloma spoons entitled “Rhythm of Generations”. The result is a rather arresting appeal to folk crafts, and entirely without cranberry-sauce kitsch, even
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One might say that the Moscow art season truly began yesterday: the Cosmoscow fair opened, and there will be much talk of it in the days ahead. I was fortunate enough to survey the year's achievements in contemporary art and the leading galleries during the Beluga morning mediation,
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On 18 September the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art opens the project “Vrubel. The Birth of a New Art”, organised jointly with the Russian Museum. The curator is the art historian Sergey Khachaturov. At the exhibition Vrubel appears as a prophet of the avant-garde, set in the context
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At Lamoda's "Pygmalion's Fitting Room", one of the strangest stands at Cosmoscow, created by Valeria Titova and Daria Tishkova, they recall the story told by Ovid of the Cypriot sculptor who carved a figure from ivory and fell in love with it. People usually
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Igor Grabar, speaking on behalf of the artists attending the congress as guests, announced that the artists intended to present the congress with a portrait of Stalin. Boris Pasternak, a member of the congress presidium, who was sitting on the stage, took it upon himself to steady the portrait of
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The history of the colour black is the history of humanity's transformations: its fears, the mechanisms of power it has built, its spiritual quests and the aesthetic revolutions that continue to this day. The project "The History of Black" at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, curated by