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The Moksha group have traditionally inhabited the south of Mordovia. The traditional female costume is colourful and original. The long tunic-shaped blouse is decorated with blue or red embroidery. T...
Saratov Province lies on the River Volga in eastern European Russia. The native population is Russians. The traditional festive female attire consisted of a long blouse made from white linen with lon...
The Pan-Russian Manufacturing Exhibition of 1870 was held in St Petersburg, in the former warehouses of the Salt Market (Solyanoi Gorodok), which were built in the early nineteenth century on the ban...
The exhibition was organised by the Imperial Academy of Sciences to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Mikhail Lomonosov. Curated by Baron Nikolai Wrangel, it was held at the Imperial Academy ...
The Museum of Old Petersburg was an example of the attempts of the World of Art to resurrect the forgotten art of the eighteenth century. In spring 1907, Alexander Benois founded a Commission for the...
Foreign visitors to St Petersburg were always struck by the beauty of the River Neva, particularly at full tide. A busy transport artery, the river often burst its banks, causing havoc in the city. I...
The Decorative Institute was founded on the basis of the Petrograd Theatrical Design Studios in January 1920. Besides such practical activities as decorating parades and facades on Communist holidays...
Christ the Almighty ( Pantocrator ) is the main iconographic type of Jesus Christ and is often encountered in Greek and Old Russian art. Icons of Christ the Almighty first appeared in the Dormition C...
The krasnushka (“pretty”) icon was an inexpensive, mass-produced work of art. Distinguished by their predominant tones of brown-red or red-ochre, krasnushki enjoyed great demand in Russia. They soon ...
St Michael the Archangel played a pivotal role in the national consciousness of the Russian people. The angel accompanied the human soul as it left the physical body and passed on its journey to the ...