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Exhibition of Vera Yermolayeva's works at Galeev Gallery until 13 November

The final week of the remarkable exhibition "Faith in Yermolayeva" is under way at Galeev Gallery. It is not merely a weighty event from the curatorial point of view, but also an important account of Vera Yermolayeva (1893-1937), whose name, though little known, has become one of

Painted portrait of a girl in dark clothing holding a large black umbrella against a grey background.

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Mariya Bashkirtseva's 1883 painting of a girl with an umbrella

Girl with an Umbrella. Marie Bashkirtseff, 1883

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A Gift for Stalin

The Pushkin Museum has put on display an art cabinet (a so-called kunstkast) presented to Stalin in 1949. This year, specialists of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts attributed this piece of furniture: the paintings are by the Antwerp painter Jan van Balen and date from the

Still life with an orange branch in blossom above a table with peeled fruit, a glass decanter, a glass of juice and a bouquet.

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Citrus Still Life by Rafael Romeo Barros, 1863

Rafael Romeo Barros reminds us that the most tangerine season of the year is upon us. 1863.

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The impressive "Glory of Saint Ignatius" in the Baroque Roman church of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola, one of the largest frescoes in the world and the work of the Italian artist, architect, art theorist and Jesuit brother Andrea Pozzo, is unique not only…

The subject of the painting glorifies Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order, and his missionary work. The continents are portrayed in female and male figures, each resting on a characteristic animal: Europe with a sceptre, mounted on a horse; Africa, seated on a crocodile; America, appearing as

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The Holy Family as Imagined by an Early Seventeenth-Century Artist from Northern India

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Fyodor Bruni's "The Brazen Serpent" from the Russian Museum's collection in Saint Petersburg will be on show in Room 9 of the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane from 6 November to 12 May

"The Brazen Serpent" by Fyodor Bruni, from the collection of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, will be on show in Room 9 of the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane from 6 November to 12 May. The painting was last in Moscow in 2003,

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Two Violins

Two violins. One painting belongs to Pablo Picasso, 1912, the other to Lyubov Popova, 1915. Guess which is whose?

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New monument to the Governor-General of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov, and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, unveiled in Klimentovsky Lane, beside Tretyakovskaya metro station

The monument depicts the grand ducal couple on the day of their wedding in 1884. Elizaveta Feodorovna wears a bridal gown with a flowing train. Sergei Alexandrovich is dressed in the uniform of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment, which he commanded from 1887 to 1891. Sergei Romanov was killed in

Ink drawing of a two-storey house with a chimney: a girl with pigtails labelled Valya in the upper window, Baba Yaga in the lower one.

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Mikhail Belomlinsky drew a house for Kostyor magazine where Valya and Baba Yaga live

Valya and Baba Yaga, or, as the estate agents say, "Wonderful, considerate neighbours!" Illustration for the magazine Kostyor. Mikhail Samuilovich Belomlinsky

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No Bremen residence permit, no leave!

Illustration from the magazine Krokodil, Viktor Alexandrovich Chizhikov

Black-and-white group photograph of nine men seated in two rows on a step by a window.

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Man Ray, Éluard, Dalí, Breton and Crevel change places in a photograph of the Surrealists

The Surrealists have changed seats. Man Ray has moved to Paul Éluard's place, Paul Éluard to Dalí's, Dalí to André Breton's, André Breton to René Crevel's, and René Crevel to Man Ray's. Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Yves Tanguy and Max