Ilya Kabakov: Even in the Soviet era, the West was always present
Kabakov, one of the most successful Russian artists working today, spoke with Afisha magazine about Soviet underground art, contemporary art and emigration
Lenin lives on in bronze and on screens around the world
Ninety years after the death of Bolshevik leader, monuments to Lenin still stand around the world, and artists continue to feature his image in new films and other artwork
Andrei Rublev: A saint and revered icon painter
The Russian Orthodox Church has had several prominent painters of icons and frescoes over the centuries – but Andrei Rublev is undoubtedly the most famous
Multimedia Art Museum's director: Life as work of art
Olga Sviblova, the creator of the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, discusses how the museum established itself as one of Russia’s most important venues for preserving the country’s past through modern arts
Art at auction: What is in demand in the Russian market?
On the eve of Russian Art Week in London, Catherine McDougall, founder of MacDougall’s Auction House, told about the trends in the sale of paintings
The art of Russian politics
Russia’s top politicians—including Putin—are avid artists, whose paintings and photographs have fetched millions at an annual St. Petersburg charity auction
Natalia Vodianova, a supermodel with a Cinderella story
The entire world has been watching the history of a Russian Cinderella - Natalia Vodianova, a supermodel who has conquered the world of fashion, with the "eyes of a lioness"
The artist who turned his art into politics
RBTH has sat down with Russia’s most famous political satire cartoonist, Alexei Merinov, to talk about the genre
Russian Art Week attracts London intellectual crowd
How a website became the ultimate guide to key Russian art events in London
Shemyakin on serving Russia without Russian citizenship
Nonconformist artist Mikhail Shemyakin became an American citizen after being expelled from the Soviet Union. In an interview with Izvestia he discusses why he won't apply for Russian citizenship
14 Brits who are secretly Russians
RBTH introduces a list of the most high-profile Brits with a more or less hidden relationship with Russia
Is Russian as difficult to learn as they say?
Renowned polyglot, interpreter, psycholinguist and TV host Dmitry Petrov talks about the incentives for learning the Russian language
Eton’s first ever native Russian professor builds up language class
Since Peter Reznikov took over as head of Russian at Eton 15 years ago, the number of Etonians studying Russian increased six-fold
No surprises in store for Pushkin Museum's change of guard
Marina Loshak, who replaced Irina Antonova, director of Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts for more than 50 years, talks to RBTH about museums and modern art
Taking photos that would never be published
Yekaterinburg photographer Alexei Vladykin’s book, The Tsar’s Cross, represents two decades of work documenting the restoration of the royal family in public memory
Siberian Puppeteer creates puppets with lives of their own
In the early 1990s, Tomsk cybernetics engineer Vladimir Zakharov started a revolution in puppet theatre when he invented “wrist puppets”. People come from all over Europe to learn how to make them with Zakharov
Baku-born American Fulbright artist rediscovers his roots
Stass Shpanin, a 23-year-old Azerbaijani-born and Russian-speaking American artist, rediscovers his roots as his talent is nurtured at Moscow’s Surikov Art Institute.
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts gets new director
Irina Antonova, who has run the Pushkin State Museum for more than 50 years now, has been replaced by Marina Loshak as the director
Perm authorities wage war on contemporary art
Famous art curator and the head of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art Marat Gelman is fired in the wake of a shocking Sochi Olympics exhibition
Moscow ballet: Top of the world for one British student
Daniel Dolan, a dance student from Great Britain, tells Moskovskie Novosti of the advantages Russia offers in studying ballet, as well as what it is like to be a foreign student in Moscow