brought European neoclassical art and architecture to Russia, and French culture and language dominated the life of the nobility and the Russian court. Her son Paul I restored the succession of ...

A Russian knight hacks at a serpent depicting the leaders of Germany and the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires. A poster portraying the “Second Patriotic War” as World War I was known in ...

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 ...