An indignant social media user called out an artist for her choice of subject in the heart of Kazan, but there’s another side to the story – a backside, if you will.

The internet has been talking about Ilya Repin's painting Barge Haulers on the Volga a lot lately but, as usual, it is ignoring history.

Archaeologists have just completed digging through layers of cultural strata in the middle of the Kremlin, unearthing some interesting finds they totally forgot were down there.

If you love the sea, Ivan Aivazovsky is your man. Everyone should know about this Armenian-Russian painter.

At the beginning of July, the Russian government re-tire-d a form of folk art  dear to many: the lawn tire.

The legend of Russia's heroic defender passed into Stalinist myth with some help from one of the 20th century's most famous filmmakers.

Molly Gartland’s The Girl from the Hermitage follows the turns of fate over nearly a century of a single family in St. Petersburg, whose lives are forever altered by a portrait assignment.

Are you a Moscow Maniac or a Petersburg Patrician? It's time to take a side!

The Sandfest returns to the shores of St. Petersburg with global travel themes.

While manufacturers generally don't recommend you fly your drone at temperatures below freezing, that didn't stop videographer Vadim Sherbakov from shooting this amazing film depicting a frozen Lake Baikal. 

Alien or art? Scary sculptures are invading Kurgan. 

A sixty-year-old Christmas present reveals how Soviet archaeologists perceived their craft.