WHO. The success story of Alcohol policy changes in the Russian Federation 2005–2016. “Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian Federation experienced a major demographic and health crisis characterized by premature mortality, ill-health, and disability among young adults. Research on the underlying determinants of the increased mortality suggested that it was…
Lomonosov Porcelain Factory was founded in 1744 in Saint Petersburg by Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great. It became thus the first porcelain manufactory in Russia and the third in Europe. In 1752 talented Russian scientist Dmitry Vinogradov (1720–1758) discovered the secret of fabricating “while gold”. For the first time in ceramic history, he…
“What can be more tragic than to feel the boundlessness of the surrounding beauty and to be able to see in it its underlying mystery… and yet to be aware of your own inability to express these large feelings” ~ Isaak Levitan
The collection of the State Hermitage includes more than three million works of art and artefacts of the world culture. Among them are paintings, graphic works, sculptures and works of applied art, archaeological finds and numismatic material.
Sergei’s art is a strange combination of high aestheticism and folk “roots”, modernistic extravaganza and dadaistic fragility, symbolic bottomlessness and Russian past print metaphysics, artistic refinement and graphic roughness. But even all of those put together do not make his art unprofessional or eclectic. Rather, it transmits giant spiritual experience and marks the beginning of the sacred, mysterious, the beginning of all beginnings.
Russian and later Soviet cinema was a hotbed of invention in the period immediately following the 1917, resulting in world-renown films such as The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein.
1840 bearing a penny black stamp. He probably created and posted the card to himself as a practical joke on the postal service, since the image is a caricature of workers in the post office.The first commercially produced card was created in 1861 by John P. Charlton of Philadelphia, who patented a postal card, selling…
S.V. Ivanov was renowned for his portrayals of the life of the people and tragic fate of the peasants in Russia, and for his scenes of civil unrest, notably during the 1905 revolution. He contributed to major exhibitions in Russia and abroad from 1881. Born June 4(16), 1864, in Ruza, present-day Moscow Oblast; died Aug.…
