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The "Sleeping Shepherd Boy" Vase, with Ornamental Details Featuring Balalaika and Sheaf Motifs, Presented to Empress Maria Alexandrovna, Wife of Alexander II, for Christmas 1858

After the painted original by Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov. Russia, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Porcelain Factory. Porcelain, overglaze painting, gilding; bronze, chasing. Ostankino and Kuskovo Museum-Reserve. Photo from the exhibition "The Unknown Shchukin" at the Pushkin Museum

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On a Saint Petersburg Rooftop During the Solar Eclipse of 1912

On a Saint Petersburg rooftop during the solar eclipse of 1912. Photograph by Vladimir Vasilyevich Lebedev. In his book Sixty Years at the Telescope, the Pulkovo astronomer Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov describes this eclipse thus: “On the seventeenth of April 1912 a partial solar eclipse was observed at Pulkovo. I prepared

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One of Russia's Most Famous Prisons to Be Sold Off for Museum Complexes and Art Venues

It became known in November 2022 that the Kresty remand prison in Saint Petersburg, built in 1884–1892 to a design by the architect Antony Tomishko, is to be sold, and quite recently a report appeared that preparations for the auction are already under way, and that it will take

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On 17 November 1796, Catherine II died in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg

On 17 November 1796, Catherine II died in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. The Empress was 67 years old

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Another interesting fragment from Marina Loshak's recent interview

— Is the Russian art market content with Vasnetsov and Serov? — It is very bad when a culture, however rich and varied it may be, stews in its own juice. It is one single "broth", and every ingredient in it matters, matters very much. The history of our country,

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Huge cartoons with the composition for the painting of the drum of the main dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral

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The Ascent

The Ascent. Perhaps this is the chief thought that comes to mind on viewing the grand retrospective of Karl Bryullov at the Russian Museum. An ascent at once of you, the viewer, and of Russian art itself, up to the level of Bryullov, who became our first great painter to

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The Apparition of "Christ in the Tomb" at the Russian Museum, at the "Great Karl" Exhibition

I had not expected to see this painting at the grand jubilee exhibition of Karl Bryullov. The previously unknown canvas by Bryullov, which has now featured in legal proceedings for twenty years, was acquired in 2003 by the German collector Alexander Pevzner from the Russian Orthodox parish of the Resurrection

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Peter the Great's Lathe in Peter's Winter Palace

Peter the Great's lathe in Peter's Winter Palace. In all, the Hermitage has preserved 12 lathes from the workshop of Peter the Great; he used all of them, depending on the task and the material that needed working, wood or bone.

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I Feel an Irresistible Urge for Treasure at the Fabergé Museum

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It's Professor Dowell's Head!

It's Professor Dowell's head! A brilliant prop from Leonid Menaker's film, based on the novel by Alexander Belyaev. The living laboratory is on display on the staircase of the main building of Lenfilm

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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,