When I moved to Australia two years ago, I didn’t expect that soon it would be virtually impossible to leave…
When I married a Russian Australian and moved to Sydney in 2019, my family friends shook their heads, as if…
A theology of images In Russia, the first art to appear and flower was religious art, or iconography. Icons, or…
Andrey Ryabushin was born in 1961 in a family of village iconographers, From early childhood, he helped his father and…
In my grandparents living room, as in the living rooms of so many Russian emigres, hung one of the most…
First published in 2017 on Teaing like Russians Many Americans comment on how much in-your-face PDA (public display of affection)…
If Russian children born outside of Russia manage to carry one Russian artist’s name into adulthood, preserving it amid the…
Tretyakov, the greatest Russian art collector of all time, had one criterion for art. He wrote: “I do not need…
A few months before he was due to graduate with honours from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Ivan Kramskoy (1837-1887)…