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With 45 works, the National Gallery’s new exhibition, ‘Renoir and Love’, is the most significant exhibition of the French Impressionist’s work in the UK for 20 years.
It’s a lovely exhibition, beautifully laid out and curated, in the gallery’s Sainsbury Wing. It includes works on loan from abroad, including the super-famous ‘Dance at the Moulin de la G...
The era of Stalin, the era of Khrushchev, the era of Brezhnev. And before that: the era of Peter I, Catherine II, Alexander III. In what other country does the persona of the ruler, his character traits, his manias and phobias, leave such a profound stamp on the national history, its course, its ascents and downfalls?
(Imperium, page 87)
Russia is a country with an unpredictable past.
(Russian saying, quoted page 1)
May God preserve us from the Russian mob, senseless and merciless.
(hoary old quote from Russia’s greatest poet, Alexander Pushkin)
I read ‘Russia: Myths and Realities’ by Rodric Braithwaite immediately after Orlando...
This is a very military history. Seeing as it also covers the decade before Vladimir Putin came to power, and that it is very focused on the minutiae of the Russian Army, Navy and Air Force, as well as details of the various reforms and reorganisations they have undergone during the Putin years, the book could more accurately have been titled ‘A History of The Russia...