MOSCOW, October 23. /TASS/. Moscow police are investigating a fraud scheme involving 11 paintings by Ilya Repin, Viktor Vasnetsov, Nicola Benois and Vasily Vereshchagin worth 31 mln rubles ($539 ...
Cossacks led by Yermak Timofeyevich wade into combat against a band of indigenous Siberians. The clash was the decisive moment of a 1580 expedition by Yermak and 840 of his men to open up tracts ...
The Mediazona graphic echoes 'The Apotheosis of War', an 1871 painting by Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin depicting a pile of skulls - Copyright AFP Munir UZ ZAMAN ...