Category: Art

There’s a monument to a pelmeni in Russia’s Udmurtia region. It’s 3 metres, and the pelmen’/dumpling itself is made of stone. The word pelmen came into Russian from Finno-Ugric …

Russian Easter shifts from year to year because it falls on the first Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon. This year, Russians celebrate Easter on Sunday, April 19. …

Members of Facebook group ART-ISOLATION (Изоизоляция), decided to get creative in the times of worldwide lockdown and reimagened famous paintings. The community rules insist on no Photoshop. Also, images …

Based in Saint-Petersburg, Doping-Pong is a digital art-project started in 1997 by Dima Mishenin, Lova and Anna Maugli. Doping Pong are the pioneers of digital art in Russia. The …

Lev Pereulkov, a member of the MXD art group, created a series of artworks depicting a society of total censorship on the Internet. He published them online on November …

Last week, Alexei Leonov, the legendary Soviet cosmonaut, who became the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow at 85. The astronaut’s work …

Zoran Cardula, a designer from Macedonia, decided to do a strange combination of comic book heroes and Soviet propaganda posters. The idea was to replace the Soviet heroes from …

Alexandra Zheleznova paints a world, where modern Russian reality is interwoven with mysticism, industrial aesthetics and the motives of the German Middle Ages: luxury vehicles, smoking chimneys of Siberian …

In 2017, the “Bestiary 5+” community page was created in VKontakte. It’s dedicated to children’s work of art. An art teacher’s virtual museum consists of photos of ceramics, drawings, …