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ARTS IN ST. PETERSBURG

(just a small taste of the topics and sites you can explore on the weekly sites)

General Culture Sites

Art and Architecture - General

Olga's Gallery. Links to hundreds of pictures by Russian artists.
IMRC Russian Art Links. Mother page of the one below: includes Icons, Avant-Garde Art, an A-Z List of Artists, Art/architecture, Socialist Realism, Applied Arts, Folk Art, Cartoons, etc. Produced by the Institute of Modern Culture.
18th and 19th Century Russian Painting. Course page (part of the above site) by William Comer. Includes links to some good information on Russian painting.
Russian Painting of the Nineteenth Century. Flipping pictures of famous paintings and text from Alexander Boguslavski's page.
Russian Art. Links to numerous Russian art works. Copyright © 1999. George Mitrevski. Auburn University.
Architecture and Painting. From countrystudies.us/russia. Library of Congress.
Some posters from the Soviet Union. From the Funet Archive.

Art Academies and Museums

The St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture. History of the academy. Other interesting sections: Monumental Studio.
The Hermitage. Home Page of one of the best art museums in the world.
Russian Museum - Collections. Russian art. [Enlarge the pictures by clicking on them]
Tretyakov State Gallery. Home page of a famous art Museum (of Russian art) in Moscow.
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Home page of a famous art Museum (of Western Art) in Moscow. Includes museum history, exposition and collections (virtual tour).

Russian Music and Ballet

The Mariinsky Theatre's Costume Departments for the Kirov Opera and Ballet. This Page is part of The Costumer's Manifesto by Tara Maginnis, Ph.D [Fun site!]
Mariinsky Theatre. Official web site.
Russian Classical Ballet. Theaters, Choreography, Scenography, Ballet Education, Photo Gallery, etc., including a link to Ballet Companies - Russia. Maintained by Vladimir Moiseyev.
The Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. Home site.
Russian Classical Music Links. From Stephany Gould.
Russian Midi Page. Links to some midi files.
Russian Opera. Information on the composers, plus sound clips from various operas [you will need "Read Media"]. From "Little Russia" maintained by Vladimir Pekkel.
The Lied and Song Texts Page. Links to composers and their songs. Includes Stravinsky, Tschaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, etc. (Maintained by Emily Ezust.)
Tusovka: The Historical Political Development of Soviet Rock Music . By Tracy Donovan Drake, University of California, Santa Cruz. Chapter One:The Jazz Rock Counter Culture is Born. Chapter Two: The Language of Rock. Chapter Three: Crackdown 1980-1984. Chapter Four: The Gorbachev Era. (Excellent source of information, including sound and video files.)

St. Petersburg Writers

Pushkin. Course page.
Gogol. Course page.
Dostoevsky. Course page.
The Other St.Petersburg. A small book on St. Petersburg. Clever assemblage of written views of the city (such as a view of the Petersburger, a short guide to the St.Petersburg hangover, the "new" St. Petersburg, Daniil Kharms.... Text and translations from John Nicholson. [Check out the whole some time...what follows is a literary highlight from this collection]:
Yevgeny Zvyagin. "Shades of the Hermitage" A story about custodial work at the Hermitage.

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Last update: 3/6/05

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