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In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the lifting of restrictions on Jewish publishing, Jewish theater companies revolutionized theater and scene design and experimented with modernist approaches…
Anatoly Kaplan’s painting Pakhar’ both commemorates the lost Jewish world of his childhood and reflects accepted Soviet iconography. The Yiddish inscription that frames the central image reads,…
Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) in costume for the solo dance The Dying Swan, a role especially created for her, and which she performed an estimated four thousand times. Born in St. Petersburg and brought…
The ballet season has begun with Swan Lake, in which the young ballerina Tamara Karsavina performed twice. The public is clearly interested in ballet, and among various segments of the Petersburg…
When about two years ago the wish arose in me to explain the artistic basis of the new trends evident in the “Ballets Russes,” my attempt, which appeared as an article entitled “On the New Ballet” (Ap…
This bronze statue, The Captive, also known as The Slave, is one of the allegorical sculptures for which Maria Dillon is best known. It depicts a woman, whose hands are bound behind her back, bowing…
Leonid Pasternak painted young men of the Moscow intelligentsia in student accommodations engaged in an evening study session fueled by tobacco and tea, with a bed depicted on the left and a samovar…
Among the figures of contemporary ballet on the Maryinsky’s stage, Mathilda Kshesinskaya constitutes a phenomenon of exceptional interest. Her name enjoys great fame, her talent—unusually brilliant…