Yesterday marked the ninety-fifth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s suicide. It is particularly significant today that World War I played such a key role in shaping him. This war led to the ...

She was one of three legendary, avant-garde Russian composers to be disgraced, along with Schnittke and Denisov. "We were all very different artists," she told the BBC in 2013. "Edison Denisov was ...

The dramatic story of three great Russian avant-garde painters from the beginning of the last century – Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov and Vladimir Tatlin – and their supporter, Nikolai Punin ...

THE LAST TWO ‘RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE EXHIBITIONS’ I reported on turned out to be not very Avant-Garde at all: a show in Mantua in 2013 (which had at least a handful of works that might have been ...

He has authored and edited twenty-five books of scholarship, biography, nonfiction, fiction, poetry and translation in English and Russian, among them “The World of Nabokov’s Stories,” “Genrikh Sapgir ...