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Vladimir Kachalsky
Vladimir Stanislavovich Kachalsky (russian: Владимир Станиславович Качальский; (March 1, 1956) is a Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist and Printmaking, printmaker, book artist, author of installations and sculptural objects. Biography Studied in the studio under the guidance of Y. V. Dimakov (1962–1964). Studied in the studio of his father, artist S. B. Kachalsky; Secondary Leningrad Secondary Art School, Art School named after Ioganson (1967–1974). Graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts, Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.Y. Repin, V. A. Vetrogonsky's studio (1979–1985). Member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (since 1990). Over recent years, he has been occupied with private interior design, fresco wall painting, colour relief. The artist works in printed graphic technics: lithography, etching, serigraphy, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a population of over 1.1 million people, and the second-largest city in the Ural Federal District, after Yekaterinburg. Chelyabinsk runs along the Miass River, and is just east of the Ural Mountains. The area of Chelyabinsk contained the ancient settlement of Arkaim, which belonged to the Sintashta culture. In 1736, a fortress by the name of Chelyaba was founded on the site of a Bashkir village. Chelyabinsk was granted town status by 1787. Chelyabinsk began to grow rapidly by the early 20th century as a result of the construction of railway links from the Russian core to Siberia, including the Trans-Siberian Railway. Its population reached 70,000 by 1917. Under the Soviet Union, Chelyabinsk became a major industrial centre during the 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Catalogue Of The Museum Fund Of Russia
State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia (russian: Государственный каталог Музейного фонда Российской Федерации) (also known as Goskatalog.RU) — a division of The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Feature Regularly updated online catalog. The only electronic database of museum collections in the Russian Federation. Unites all state museums of the Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the .... The database contains basic information about each museum object and each museum collection included in the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation. There are 870 museums registered in the database; registered museum items — 3 485 8933 (for January 2023). References External links official webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benois House
Benois House (russian: До́м Бенуа́, Dóm Benuá), also widely known as the Three Benois House (russian: До́м трёх Бенуа́, Dóm trokh Benuá), is a historic building in Saint Petersburg, Russia. History The apartment house occupies almost a whole quarter on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt. The locals call it “the Benois House ” or “the house of the Three Benois”, because it was designed by three members of a famous family of architects—brothers Leon Benois and Albert Benois and their cousin Julius Benois. The building was erected in 1911-1914 by order of the First Russian Insurance Company. The number of apartments during the construction of the house is 250, the number of front doors is 25, the number of courtyards is 12. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the house’s original residents—princes, counts and prosperous manufacturers were replaced by Bolshevik leaders. The apartments on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt were taken by comrades Grigory Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), is the second-largest city in Russia. It is situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, with a population of roughly 5.4 million residents. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe after Istanbul, Moscow and London, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city. The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, and was named after apostle Saint Peter. In Russia, Saint Petersburg is historically and culturally associated with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolay Blagodatov
Nikolay Innokentjevich Blagodatov (Russian: Николай Иннокентьевич Благодатов) is a famous Soviet Nonconformist Art collector in USSR and Russia. He is a member of the Section of Criticism and Art Criticism of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. Biography Nikolay Blagodatov graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Water Communications in 1962. In 1975, he became interested in collecting works of modern art. At the moment, his collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art (1970-1990) is one of the most significant in Russia. Since 1979, he has been writing articles about art (more than 250 articles). As a collector, organizer and participant of more than 50 exhibitions, including 8 personal collections. He is a partner of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. He personally meets and with many representatives of Soviet Nonconformist Art. Nikolay Innokentievich Blagodatov is a friend of Art.https://proza.ru/2022/05/20/1526 Bibliography (selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Grigoryants
Elena Igorevna Grigoryants (russian: Еле́на И́горевна Григорья́нц; (b. August 12, 1965 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian culturologist, art critic, curator. Associate Professor. PhD in Philosophy, member of Association of Specialists in Art History. Biography Elena Grigoryants was born in Leningrad 12 of August 1965. Elena studied at the Librarys Faculty of the Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts from 1983–1986. Joined the Art Critics Association (ACA) member (since 2003). PhD in Art History with the thesis “The book in culture” (1993). Elena Grigoryants the author of more than 200 articles on the history of Russian artist's book, and graphics art, including the artists of St. Petersburg Alexey Parygin, Andrey Korolchuk, Georgy Kovenchuk Gaga (Georgy Vasilyevich) Kovenchuk ( rus, Гага (Георгий Васильевич) Ковенчук; 2 December 1933 — 3 February 2015). Soviet and Russian artist and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Klimova (art Historian)
Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Klimova (russian: Екатери́на Алекса́ндровна Кли́мова, born January 24, 1978) is a Russian film, theater and TV actress, who started her career in 1999. In 2002, she received the Viktor Rozov Award for the Best Actress Under Age 30. One of her notable roles is Dutchess Natalia Repnina in 2003 television series '' Poor Nastya''. Biography Klimova was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia). After high school, Catherine entered the preparatory courses in the Russian State Institute of VGIK. She graduated from the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School with honors in 1999 (acting department, workshop of Nikolai Afonin). Personal life First husband — Ilya Khoroshilov jeweler with whom Klimova had met while still a schoolgirl. The couple divorced in 2004. Daughter Liza Khoroshilova (born 2002). Second husband — In 2004, she married Igor Petrenko. They have two sons together — Matvey Petrenko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City As An Artist's Subjectivity
''City as an Artist's Subjectivity'' (russian: Го́род как субъекти́вность худо́жника, Górod kak sub"yektívnost' khudózhnika. 2020) is a publication in the format of an artist's book, spearheaded in St. Petersburg by the artist-curator Alexey Parygin. Thirty-five modern artists from four Russian cities took part in the project ( Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan). History of creation Every invited artist created only one graphic composition accompanied by the author's commentary, a short text with their understanding of a large modern city. All graphic sheets are collected in specially designed publishing boxes. The limited edition of the portfolio included 58 numbered copies, signed by the authors of the compositions, the curator and the publisher. All graphic sheets are made in color, in various printed graphic techniques: lithography, linocut, woodcut, plywood engraving, serigraphy, stencil, etching, manual typeset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian semi-exclave between Lithuania and Poland. The city sits about west from mainland Russia. The city is situated on the Pregolya River, at the head of the Vistula Lagoon on the Baltic Sea, and is the only ice-free port of Russia and the Baltic states on the Baltic Sea. Its population in 2020 was 489,359, with up to 800,000 residents in the urban agglomeration. Kaliningrad is the second-largest city in the Northwestern Federal District, after Saint Petersburg, the third-largest city in the Baltic region, and the seventh-largest city on the Baltic Sea. The settlement of modern-day Kaliningrad was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
