Boris Kustodiev painted merchant wives, Maslenitsa fairs and Russian Venus from a wheelchair. Explore his life, key works and the Volga world he remembered.
120 paintings by Aivazovsky, plus graphic sheets, ship accessories and porcelain, go on view at the State Russian Museum’s Benois Wing in Saint Petersburg.
Arkhip Kuindzhi turned moonlight into spectacle. Explore his 1880 Dnieper sensation, his glowing technique, famous students and where to see his work today.
Viktor Vasnetsov painted Russian fairy tales and bogatyrs as grand history painting. Explore Alyonushka, Three Bogatyrs, Abramtsevo and his lasting legacy.
Karl Bryullov’s The Last Day of Pompeii (1833) made Russian painting a European story. Learn how it was made, who praised it, and where to see it.
Point and Line at the Tretyakov Gallery in Kaliningrad: 150+ works tracing geometric abstraction in Russian art, from Cubo-Futurism to Malevich and Kandinsky.
Our Twentieth. Image of the Era brings Malevich, Kandinsky, Konchalovsky and Gerasimov to the Krasnoyarsk Surikov Art Museum, with 20th century painting.
Malevich FLY at the Igor Burganov Academy of Arts in Moscow: painters pay homage to Suprematism, with Tolstikov, Shushanyan and Lobov. See what is on view.
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.