Author: Andrei Nesterov

Discussing Paintings in Russian: Russian Vocabulary

The following bilingual resource is intended to help students of Russian build vocabulary to discuss paintings in Russian. This includes discussing how paintings are created and how they are critically analyzed. As this is a complex field, we have limited discussion to paintings and have omitted prints, drawings, lithography, and other related arts, which may […]

Elena Martilla: Artist of the Blockade

Elena Oskarovna Martilla came of age as an artist during WWII in Leningrad. She created haunting images of the suffering the residents of that blockaded city lived through as well as proud images of their perseverance. Today, she is 98 years old and still producing art. The Russian Museum, one of the St. Petersburg’s largest […]