19 century aesthetic russia

yz- Zichy, Mihály (b,1827)- Russian Ball- Winter Palace, 1873

portfolio of sketches and drawings from student years

Thanks to a school curriculum that includes masterpieces by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn and others, Russians from all segments of society have a common cultural bond and intellectual reference point. This is an important factor in fostering national identity and social cohesion.

August von Siegen (b.1850, 19th Century)

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