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  • Imagine Moscow at the Design Museum

    Imagine Moscow at the Design Museum

    Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Design Museum’s Imagine Moscow exhibition explores Moscow as it was imagined by a bold new generation of architects and designers in the 1920s and early 1930s.     Drawing on rarely seen material, Imagine Moscow presents an idealistic vision of the Soviet capital that was never realised. Large-scale architectural…

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  • Revolution: Russian Art opens at Royal Academy

    Revolution: Russian Art opens at Royal Academy

    One hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, this powerful exhibition explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through the lens of its groundbreaking art. Renowned artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall and Rodchenko were among those to live through the fateful events of 1917, which ended centuries of Tsarist rule and…

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  • Painting of last Russian Tsar found beneath portrait of Lenin

    Painting of last Russian Tsar found beneath portrait of Lenin

    A portrait of Tsar Nicholas II was discovered during the restoration of a full-size painting of the 1917 October Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin. The image was “hidden” for the last 90 years beneath water-soluble paint on the back of the canvas used by Soviet artist Vladislav Izmailovich for Lenin’s portrait. The discovery was made by…

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