Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The State Hermitage is to undertake a large-scale restoration of its buildings in the coming years. According to the museum's director, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the work will affect the Hermitage Theatre and the Menshikov Palace and will continue for several years. The plans include the restoration of façades,
Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
In the fifteenth century the icon stood in the iconostasis of the Trinity Cathedral of the Lavra, founded by St Sergius of Radonezh. After the Revolution it was removed from the monastery, and in 1929, after nine years spent in the museum at Zagorsk, it was transferred to the Tretyakov
Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The subject is a Russian peasant whom the invaders meant to conscript into Napoleon's army, and whose hand they branded with the letter N; whereupon, before the astonished eyes of the intruders, he hacked off his branded hand. The Roman Scaevola, that is to say the Left-Handed,
Architecture · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
The painting "Footballer" by Alexander Deineka, which can be seen at the artist's exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya, depicts the bell tower of the Church of John the Baptist in Yaroslavl, the very one that appears on the 1,000-rouble banknote. The 45-
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
In the sculpture courtyard of the A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture, the open restoration of the memorial monument with the bust of Catherine II, created by the sculptor Vasily Ivanovich Demut-Malinovsky in 1834, has come to an end. The monument is an allegorical sculptural group on a single
In the Press · Art · Museums · Heritage
The Bern Museum of Fine Arts has announced a substantial overhaul of its principles concerning works of art confiscated by the Nazis, reports Artguide. Among the new principles, for instance, is a broader definition of works lost by their owners during Nazi persecution: such works now include those confiscated, those
Faith · Art · Museums
John the Forerunner. Icon from the iconostasis of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Mother of God at the Ferapontov Monastery. 1490s or 1502-1503. Attributed to Dionisius, the first Russian icon painter of secular status
Architecture · Moscow · Museums
The exhibition comprises 16 halls devoted to the history of all the Cossack hosts and Guards formations of the Russian Empire. Among the 800 exhibits are a numismatic collection, orders and decorations, weapons, uniforms, banners, paintings, graphic art, sculpture, archival documents and maps.
Faith · Art · Museums
The Nativity of John the Baptist, Russian icon of the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century. The Gospel tells us that in the reign of King Herod an angel appeared to the aged priest Zacharias and said: “Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage
Romania demands return of El Greco painting owned by Dmitry Rybolovlev. In February of this year the auction house Christie’s withdrew from sale El Greco’s “Saint Sebastian” after the Romanian authorities declared that the painting had been unlawfully taken out of the country. The canvas was acquired by
Art · Moscow · Museums · Humour
On Gogolevsky Boulevard, Napoleon plays chess with his uncle, Cardinal Mozef Fesch. Bonaparte is losing. In fact, though, Jean-Georges Vibert's painting "Check!" is kept at the Haggin Museum in California
Archive · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The evacuation of museum collections from the western regions of the USSR began in the first days of the Great Patriotic War. The rapidity of the advance and the appalling scenes of destruction visited by the Germans upon monuments of history and culture left no other choice. The museums had