After graduating from the Art School of Kazan in 1900, Fechin went to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg under Ilya Repin, a leading artist of the Russian Realist movement. During ...

The death of Bazhanov, who founded institutions including the groundbreaking National Centre for Contemporary Art, follows ...

Ilya Repin (1844-1930) is a Russian realist painter and an academician of St. Petersburg’s Imperial Academy of Arts. He is known as a portraitist and author of historic paintings and works ...

Tom Roberts researches Russian literature, cinema and intellectual history, specializing in the theory and practice of 19th-century literary realism. He is currently ... and avant-garde cinema, art, ...