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Holy Trinity, Hospitality of Abraham; by Andrei Rublev; c. 1411; tempera on panel; 1.1 x 1.4 m (4 ft 8 in x 3 ft 8 3 ⁄ 4 in); Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow). Russian icons represent a form of religious art that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity after Kievan Rus' adopted the faith from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in AD 988. [1]
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The Russian State Children's Library, also called the RGDB, is the world's largest Children's library, [1] [2] located in the Russian capital of Moscow. The library receives 45,000 visitors a year and 1.2 million online visitors annually. [ 3 ]
The coat of arms of Russia derives from the earlier coat of arms of the Russian Empire. Though modified more than once since the reign of Ivan III (1462–1505), the current coat of arms is directly derived from its medieval original, with the double-headed eagle having Byzantine and earlier antecedents.
The painting was stolen during an exhibit at a small art gallery in Clayton, Missouri, in June 1973. [6] In 1988, it turned up and was sold at an auction in New Orleans for about $70,000. Steven Spielberg bought the painting from Judy Goffman Cutler , a noted art dealer who specialized in American illustrators, in 1989 for $200,000.
The National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) (Russian: Государственный центр современного искусства) in Moscow, Russia, is a museum, exhibition and research organization which primarily aims its efforts at the development of Contemporary Russian Art within the context of the global art process.
Museum of Children's Theaters (Russian: Музей детских театров) is a former museum in Moscow, which existed from 1981 to 2003. Its exhibits were associated with the history of Russian young Spectator's Theatre. Since 2008, it has been opened as a department of children's and puppet theaters of the A.A. Bakhrushin State Central ...