Russia!

Introduction

RUSSIA! explores the vast and complex historical phenomenon embodied by the word “Russia” through the lens of the greatest masterworks of Russian art from the 13th century to today. The exhibition also includes works from the world-class collections amassed by Russian tsars and merchants. [more]

Historical Overview

Russia is the largest country on earth, covering one-eighth of the world’s land surface. It is nearly twice as large as the United States, and spans 11 time zones. Russia stretches east from the Baltic Sea across the northernmost stretches of Europe, through Central Asia, all the way to the western edge of the Pacific Ocean north of China. In the middle of the 20th century it was even larger. Then called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) or Soviet Union, it included a number of now independent nations, such as Estonia and Kazakhstan. [more]

The Age of the Icon: 13th–17th Centuries		The Early 18th Century: The Age of Peter the Great		The Late 18th Century: The Reign of Catherine the Great
The Coming of Age of Russian Art: The First half of the 19th Century		Art and Society: Second half of the 19th Century		The Collections of Shchukin and Morozov
The Early 20th Century		Art and Ideology: Late 19th Century		Opening New Spaces: 1980s to the present