Vasily Vereshchagin painted war as skulls, frozen sentries and unburied dead. Follow the Russian war artist from Turkestan to Port Arthur.
Ivan Shishkin painted Russia’s pine forests with a botanist’s eye. Learn how Morning in a Pine Forest was made, who painted its bears, and why it endures.
Kandinsky, Klee and Malevich meet Russian icons and documents at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia, read through Pavel Florensky’s reverse perspective.
Around 200 pastels from the 18th to early 20th centuries, from Erikssen’s portraits to Levitan, Serov and Vrubel, on view at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
The Russian Museum in St Petersburg holds the world’s largest collection of Russian fine art, from icons to Malevich. See what tourists miss and why it matters.
Palazzo dei Diamanti traces European painting from Barbizon landscapes through Impressionism to abstraction, with works by Monet, Van Gogh, Kandinsky and Mondrian, 19 Sep 2026 to 10 Jan 2027.
How a Moscow textile merchant’s private collection became the State Tretyakov Gallery, home to Repin, Kramskoi, Surikov, and Levitan. History, works, legacy.
Composed Vibration gathers Wassily Kandinsky paintings from Japanese collections, 12 September to 28 October 2026. See what’s on view and why this abstraction pioneer still matters.
Kandinsky’s Rome retrospective at Palazzo Bonaparte gathers 70+ works from the Centre Pompidou, tracing his path to abstraction. 15 Sept 2026 to 14 Feb 2027.
The 0,10 Exhibition of 1915 in Petrograd launched Suprematism when Malevich hung Black Square in a room’s icon corner. Here is what really happened.