With the end of the Soviet Union and the opening of the borders, the political emigration of 20th century Russian writers has become history. Former emigrants either stayed abroad (W. P. Axjonow ) or returned – temporarily or permanently – to...
Architecture and urban planning With the founding of Saint Petersburg (1703), new principles of urban planning and architecture penetrated Russia. The capital, built mainly by Western European architects, was shaped by the strict style v. Chr. a. D. Trezzinis coined. With...
The art from 1917 to 1932 Architecture The avant-garde architectural ideas (by Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Malewitsch, N. Gabo, among others) of the first years of the revolution were hardly ever realized. Constructivist efforts, in which foreigners (e.g. Le Corbusier) also participated,...
The first notes noticeable in the pages of AN Radiščev (1749-1802) found echo and vigor in NM Karamzin (1766-1826), who summed up in himself the lessons of Rousseau, of Young, of Sterne. Russia appeared completely open to French and English influence....
