March 01, 2000 Portraits of St. Petersburg Thirty years ago, Valentin Baranovsky began to take pictures of both everyday life and major events in his home town. This became a unique one-man artistic project to document three decades of St.Petersburg life. The photographs, to be presented in book form and through exhibitions, date from 1970 to 2000. Art History Russia File
February 06, 2000 Shawls of Pavlovsky Posad From a land not known for high fashion and which many Westerners think is filled with gray clad babushkas, the Pavlovsky Posad shawls come as quite a surprise. Art Russia File
January 10, 2000 All that Glitters . . . Or Something More? Why are we so fascinated with the lavish and expensive creations of the House of Faberge? Art Russia File
July 01, 1995 Bolshoy Tickets: The Inside Track Tips for getting tickets to the hottest show in Moscow. Art Culture Moscow
Sculpture, Painting and Music Written in 1834 and published the next year in Gogol’s collection of essays Arabesques, this brief statement compares and ranks the three titular arts. Curiously, Gogol pays little attention to verbal art, focusing instead on the transcendent qualities he sees in music. Art
Original Lithographs The featured artist in this issue is Yuri Annenkov, whose wonderful lithographs from Paris in the 1920s set a perfectly bohemian mood. Art
