Due to a change in our guest presenter's schedule, Dr. Joachim Pissarro's online lecture Rise and Fall of an Ideology: From Utopia to Dissent, originally scheduled for May 13th, is postponed until August 12th. In view of this unexpected change in our speaker's availability, [...]
On Saturday, April 1, the Russian History Museum commemorated the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth with an online lecture by Dr. Valeria Z. Nollan. The lecture, "Sergei Rachmaninoff Re-Envisioned for the Twenty-First Century," was presented as part of the Russian History Museum's Second [...]
On Saturday, March 11, Dr. Joachim Pissarro presented "200 Years of Russian Art: The Sublime, Its Vagaries and Incessant Return" as a part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday online lecture series. Essays on Russian art tend to focus either on [...]
On Saturday, February 11, Robin Joy Wellman presented "Forgotten Tales of California: The Russian-American Company and Fort Ross" as a part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday online lecture series. Chartered under Emperor Paul I, the Russian-American Company was a state-sponsored [...]
On Saturday, January 14, Dr. Sibelan Forrester presented "Russian Folklore: Words Transformed Over Centuries" as a part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday online lecture series. Russian folklore is naturally intertwined with the environment, history, and politics of Russia and the [...]
On Saturday, December 10, Dr. Peter De Simone presented "Old Believers in Imperial Russia" as a part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday online lecture series. Who are the Old Believers? And what is their role in Russian history? Following the [...]
On Saturday, November 12, Dr. Karen Kettering presented "The Afterlife of Fabergé: Fauxbergé and More" as a part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday online lecture series. Over a century after the firm of Fabergé was forced to shutter its business, [...]
On Saturday, October 1st, Marilyn Swezey presented "The Tsar and the President: Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln" as a part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday online lecture series. Tsar Alexander II of Russia and President Abraham Lincoln both profoundly influenced [...]
On Saturday, September 10th, Dr. Elizabeth Zelensky presented "Pavlovsk Park Long Ago and Forever: Scouting as a Factor in 20th Century Russian Self-Identity" as a part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday online lecture series. What was the relationship between liberalism, [...]
On Saturday, August 13th, Dr. K. Andrea Rusnock presented "Pictures in Thread: Late Imperial Russia and Needlework" as a part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday online lecture series. Needlework played a key role in nineteenth century Russian culture and art [...]
