when it was part of the Russian Empire.” On Semenik’s Twitter account, Ukrainian Art History, which has over 17,000 followers, she wrote that “All [Repin’s] famous landscapes were about ...

So the Met re-reclassified him: Aivazovsky is now described as “Armenian, born Russian Empire [now Ukraine].” Activists and art historians have been pressuring museums to rethink how they ...

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The dancers, however, were probably from Ukraine—which was part of the Russian Empire at the time. Now, facing pressure from the art world, the Met has officially renamed the piece Dancers in ...

Most of Kherson’s art collection, which is worth millions ... the area near the Black and Azov Seas centuries before the Russian empire—have disappeared without a trace, as have hundreds ...

His motto was “Life into art,” but only a fraction of each ... Born 1885, a subject of the old Russian Empire. Grew up in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Self-described artist-engineer.

The fifth-century jewelry is gone. Shelves that used to house artifacts from the Cossacks, who lived in the area before it was conquered by the Russian Empire, are now empty. Russians packed it ...

At the height of the Russian empire, in the 19th century, under the rule of some of the most ponderous autocrats of their time, a plethora of reform movements flowered: social democrats ...