Rosamund Bartlett is a biographer and translator of Chekhov and Tolstoy, and lectures regularly on Russian art
The story of Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin’s competing artistic outlooks is told with verve in Sjeng Scheijen’s new book
The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s extension is too populist and commercially minded for some – but it is full of possibilities
The artists of Ukrainian modernism have often been miscategorised as Russian, but an exhibition of avant-garde art seeks to redress the balance
Marianne Werefkin has long been overshadowed by her male peers, but the Royal Academy’s show devoted to modernist women may restore her to her rightful place
The novelist revered Raphael’s Sistine Madonna – and Holbein’s Dead Christ almost induced an epileptic fit
Ivan Morozov built one of the greatest modern art collections in the world – but only a century after his death is his legacy being recognised
A ritzy new book brings to life the eclectic tastes and unbridled opulence of aristocratic families in late imperial Russia
How Sergei Shchukin brought paintings by the most trailblazing members of the French avant-garde to Russia
Russia's 19th-century portraitists were more than a match for the exceptional writers and composers they painted. So why is their work so neglected?
