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Second life of great Socialist monument

A sculpture originally created to crown the 37-meter-high Soviet pavilion of the World's Fair in 1937 has recently been restored and returned to its place at the All-Russia Exhibition Center in Moscow.

Photo from http://kremlin.ru 27.05.2009, 20:48 3 comments

Access granted: log on to Russia’s past

The new digital library in St. Petersburg is said to be without comparison in the world. It houses scanned copies of the entire Russian state historical archive.

Tsar Nicholas II with his son Aleksey. Photo by Pierre Gilliard 07.09.2009, 17:00 5 comments

Secret photos of the Romanovs

The last days of the Romanovs… An exhibition of personal photographs taken by the French tutor of the five children of the last Russian Tsar opens in Moscow’s State Historical Museum on Red Square on September 8.

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Russian emigrant art to be brought to light at home

Continuing the theme of Russian art heritage created outside the country, the exhibition “Russian Americans” unveils the works of Russian artists of the beginning of the 20th Century, created abroad.

19.05.2009, 19:46 2 comments

The time of Faberge

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts opens the exhibition of the great goldsmith who worked for the Imperial family, Karl Faberge.

Mikhail Gorbachev (photo by  Annie Leibovitz) 28.12.2009, 17:43 3 comments

Gorby’s ad praised

Former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev’s remarkable ad for Louis Vuitton has been named one of the best print ads of the decade by one of the world’s leading advertising trade publications, Adweek.

16.05.2009, 09:07 1 comment

One-of-a-kind Tsarist furniture almost sold

A rare 19th century collection of chairs and sofas from the Russian Imperial Winter palace in St. Petersburg has been discovered at Helsinki’s Bukowski auction.

Photo taken by Vera Uvarova in hospital 01.06.2009, 09:55

Photo op

A 19-year-old Russian girl spent several months in hospital after a bloody car accident which turned her into a promising photographer.

10.07.2009, 15:14 1 comment

Hemingway: A Farewell to the KGB?

Author of “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, Nobel prize-winning American novelist Ernest Hemingway was allegedly on the list of Soviet KGB agents in America back in the 1940s.

AFP Photo / Stephane Danna 14.07.2009, 10:58 1 comment

Discovering the Romanov family

There’s now a royal road to learning about the Russian imperial family through a large-scale exhibition entitled “Moscow: Splendours of the Romanovs”, which has opened at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.

US rewards Russia’s cultural activist

Published: 13 October, 2009, 17:05


Irina Antonova (image from www.rian.ru)

A woman who was a cultural link for Russia and America even during the times of the Cold War has had her achievements marked in the US with the Liberty Award.

 
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