In the 19th century Russia historical painting was freed from formality and canons. We find a good example of this in the work of Vasily Surikov (1848-1916) who created historical paintings of deep ...

Last minutes of False Dmitry, by Carl Wenig He claimed to be the heir to the Russian throne, but history has not been kind to the man now known as “False Dmitry I.” After marching into the ...

Aleksandr Surikov, aged 68, passed away on Saturday night under circumstances that are yet to be clarified, reported the ...