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.
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.