Painting in Corsets and Tiaras: Women Artists at the Russian Court

Women artists struggled for over a century to gain formal admittance into the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Those represented in An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from the State Hermitage Museum also gained acceptance and praise among Russian society in the 18th and 19th centuries. Read More

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	The Artist and Insomnia: Landscapes of the Night
	The exhibition Insomnia: Landscapes of the Night provides a glimpse into the artist's psyche and unconscious creative process.
	The Women Who Created an Imperial Collection
	Catherine the Great and her daughter-in-law Maria Fedorovna shaped the perception of women artists as they amassed what would become the extraordinary collections of St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum.
	The Politics of Fiction: Reading Ludmila Ulitskaya
	With the success of Medea and Her Children, Russian novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya is introducing new audiences to her wryly humorous and tender portraits set against a soviet background.