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Woman with Serpents

This exotic and suggestive painting, with its fantastic ornamental design, is a typical example of the oeuvre of Nikolai Kalmakov in the late 1900s and early 1910s. Oriental mythology was a common th...

Lilac

Boris Kustodiev painted Lilac at the family estate of Pavlovskoe in Kostroma Province. The picture depicts the artist’s wife Yulia Yevstafievna Proshinskaya (1880–1942) with his daughter Irina Boriso...

Mocked Kiss

Konstantin Somov was known by contemporaries as “the singer of rainbows and kisses”. The artist painted retrospective genre scenes, which transformed and theatricalised reality – one of the main prin...

Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova

Valentin Serov followed the traditions of Russian ceremonial portraiture, as exemplified by Dmitry Levitsky in the eighteenth century and Karl Brullov in the nineteenth century. But the artist’s psyc...

Six-Winged Seraph

Mikhail Vrubel painted this work in 1904, when he was a patient at the Vladimir Serbsky Psychiatric Clinic in Moscow. The bright tones conjure up associations with the Byzantine mosaics in Venice and...

Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev

This unfinished picture belongs to a series of portraits of members of the Russian creative intelligentsia painted by Valentin Serov from the mid-1890s onwards. The artist first made the acquaintance...

Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev with his Nanny

Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev with his Nanny is widely regarded as one of Léon Bakst ’s most outstanding works of portraiture. This painting is probably the most famous image of Sergei Diaghilev, whos...

Supper

The public first saw Supper – or Lady in a Restaurant, as Léon Bakst himself preferred to call the picture – at the fifth World of Art exhibition in St Petersburg in 1903. The painting was a succès d...

Terror Antiquus

In 1907, Léon Bakst visited Greece in the company of Valentin Serov. During his time there, he sketched the country’s historical monuments and Mediterranean nature and read the works of Ancient Greek...

Siberian Tattooed Mummies

In 2004, tattoos were found on mummies originating from the Khakassia and Altai regions of Russia and now kept at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. One of the mummies had been kept in its origin...

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