Last minutes of False Dmitry, by Carl Wenig He claimed to be the heir to the Russian throne, but history has not been kind to the man now known as “False Dmitry I.” After marching into the ...

This course combines history of art with the study of Russian, a language of strategic importance spoken by people across several countries and large diasporic communities, including in the UK. The ...

From Tolstoy to Shostakovich, Russian culture shaped Europe ... as Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing-Table in 1909 (and the artist’s later personal history is astonishing). The picture is ...

Party of the Dead, a Russian protest art group, focuses on what they see as their country’s morbid obsession with “necrophilia” in politics and culture. They don skeletal masks and costumes ...