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Academicism

Before the Imperial Academy of Arts was opened in St Petersburg in 1764, Russian masters received their professional schooling in various institutions, such as the Armoury and the Academy of Sciences...

Neo-Primitivism

At the turn of the century, the whole of Europe was swept by a wave of interest in primitive art. African and Asian folk art was discovered and aestheticized, and Russia was no exception. Unlike thei...

Neoclassical Revival

The Neoclassical Revival was one of the many original phenomena in the Russian art of the early twentieth century. At a time when daring avant-garde experiments with form and colour were very much in...

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism was an artistic reaction against the frivolity and excesses of the Baroque and Rococo periods. As the name suggests, the inspiration for this style largely came from the classical art o...

Empire

During the reign of Tsar Alexander I (1801–25), Russia repulsed the Napoleonic invasion, defeated the Grand Armée and achieved the height of its influence in Europe. Napoleon’s crown passed to the Ru...

High Baroque

Although the style had first appeared as Muscovite or Naryshkin Baroque back in the late seventeenth century, the Baroque only really flourished in Russia between the 1740s and early 1760s. The centr...

Petrine Baroque

Peter the Great wanted Russia to follow the common European path of political, economic and cultural development. The emperor invited many West European architects, sculptors, painters and applied ar...

Rococo

Two significant styles dominated Western art in the eighteenth century – Rococo and Neoclassicism. Both styles were heavily influenced by earlier developments in art history. The Rococo style was ins...

Italian Rossica

Founded by Peter the Great in 1703 as Russia’s “window on Europe,” St Petersburg has always been a town of international culture. German, French and Dutch architects, sculptors, painters, draughtsmen...

Scottish Rossica

Scottish Architects in Imperial Russia Scottish Architects in the Soviet Union

Russian Artistic Movements

Academicism

Neo-Primitivism

Neoclassical Revival

Neoclassicism

Empire

High Baroque

Petrine Baroque

Rococo

Italian Rossica

Scottish Rossica

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