rusartnet.com - Russia - rusartnet.com

Old Russian Culture

Old Russia is the term used to describe the period in Russian history between the adoption of Christianity in the late tenth century and the reforms of Peter the Great in the late seventeenth century...

Écorché

The écorché (French: “flayed”) is a representation of a figure without the skin, displaying the muscles. Drawings of such figures were much used in academies of art when teaching plastic anatomy. Jea...

St Simeon Stylites

The Greek Church celebrates the memory of two stylites who had the same name. St Simeon the Elder was worshipped for establishing the stylite movement in the fifth century. Born in Cappadocia, Simeon...

St Eustratius

St Eustratius was martyred in Armenia in the early fourth century. The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates his memory on 13/26 December. St Eustratius was killed alongside four other holy warriors – S...

St Artemius

St Artemius was martyred in the fourth century. The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates his day on 20 October. St Artemius was a Roman general and the ruler of Egypt. A witness of the miraculous appea...

ANT-20 Maxim Gorky

The ANT-20 Maxim Gorky was a Soviet propaganda plane constructed in 1934. The largest plane in the world, the Maxim Gorky was designed and named after the famous Russian Realist writer by Soviet airc...

USSR in Construction

ATTENTION! FOR SALE Collection of eight issues of USSR in Construction, English language, good condition 1934 #1, 2, 4, 6, 7/8, 9 – 1936 #3 – 1949 #12 (Stalin special) Please contact us for further i...

Toby Jug

Toby jugs were English beer mugs in the form of standing or sitting Englishmen. They were first manufactured in Staffordshire in the 1760s. Toby jugs were extremely popular in Russia and produced in ...

Moscow Service

In the 1780s, Catherine the Great commissioned a large service from the Gardner Factory for the new palace built by Charles Cameron in Pavlovsk. The service was called the “Moscow Service” (because t...

Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists (1898)

Sergei Diaghilev opened the Exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists at the Baron Stieglitz Museum in St Petersburg in January 1898. This was the first joint action of the World of Art. Besides cont...

Russia

Random articles