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Featured Articles
- September 26, 2011
- Antiquities from Ukraine
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Starting October 1 and running through February 19 of next year, The Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis will be hosting an exhibit devoted to gold and ceramic relics dating from the Neolithic age to the Byzantine era, and unearthed in present-day Ukraine.
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- March 30, 2011
- On PBS next week: Desert of Forbidden Art
- Igor Savitsky single-handedly saved over 40,000 works of avant-garde Soviet art by hiding them in plain sight. Well, in plain sight in a completely out of the way museum in Nukus, Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan). Read More
- June 13, 2008
- Voloshin Poems
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Translator Constantine Rusanov has crafted these wonderful English versions of 11 of Maximilian Voloshin's poems. They are reprinted here with permission. The copyright to the English versions remains with Mr. Rusanov. To see the English translations alongside the original Russian, download <a href="http://www.russianlife.net/pdf/voloshin.pdf">this PDF file</a>.
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- March 9, 2006
- Hermitage Cats
A look at the cats that guard one of the world's great museums.
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- December 2, 2001
- Photo Favorites
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A gallery of my favorite photographs from St. Petersburg Times photographers Alexander Belenky and Sergey Grachev. These gentlemen have not published a picture I did not like. My favorites are those that I feel best showcase their talents and portray Russian life and culture.
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- October 18, 2001
- Russian Imperial Easter Eggs
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Skilled craftsman, Carl Fabergé, and his unsurpassed eggs which were presented to the Tsar's family each Easter.
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- September 16, 2001
- Book Picks - Architecture
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Editor's book choices about Russian architecture.
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