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 ...

Unlike Western European countries, Russian art skipped the Renaissance. The Middle Ages in Russia lasted from the end of the 10th century, when early Russia adopted Christianity, until the turn of ...

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 ...

They were also key figures in the history of Russian contemporary art who put Moscow Conceptualism, which reacted against Soviet Socialist Realism, on the international map and brought a Western ...

The art project has also been criticised by Russia's Orthodox Church itself. Vakhtang Kipshidze, a spokesman for Moscow Patriarch Kirill, told Ria Novosti news agency that symbols of Christianity ...

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 ...