2011-04-13 06:59
On this day in April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to go into space. This event was one of the greatest achievements of the 20th century and is still remembered fifty years o… Read More
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A blog about Eastern European, mainly Russian, culture.
2011-02-04 07:13
New Russian Classics (www.realartist.ru) is a website which seeks to promote and sell works by modern Russian artists in the genre of realism. While the site doesn’t appear to have bee… Read More
2011-01-12 10:49
Aleksandr Brodsky and Ilya Utkin have today become known in the Russian art world for their intriguing works of architecture, ranging from everything such as a sculpture to a artistically re… Read More
2011-01-07 21:58
A couple of weeks ago, I happened upon several Christmas cards at a local bookstore which I regularly visit, which were published and made here in the United States, mostly by the Holy Trini… Read More
2010-12-31 01:23
In 1914, prior to the Communist revolution, several postcards were made depicting how Moscow would have looked like in the future, still under monarchial rule. The postcards depict daily lif… Read More
2010-12-24 21:59
Classics Illustrated was a series of comic books released periodically from 1941 to 1971. The series usually contained adaptions of famous literary works in graphic novel format. Among the c… Read More
2010-12-23 09:35
Those who are familiar with Czech artist Alphonse Mucha know of the vivid works he created during his time abroad, but few know of what he considered his greatest work of all, the Slav Epic… Read More
2010-12-20 11:31
The second Slavic god to be featured in this series of posts is Svarog, another great figure who was revered to the Slavs as the great god of blacksmithing, law and fire, similar to that of… Read More
2010-12-03 00:27
Today’s featured artist is Mikhail Nesterov, another prominent Russian artist who is considered to be one of the most foremost figures of the Russian symbolism genre.
Like many other f… Read More
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