On Saturday, November 11, historian Douglas Smith presented “Restoring a Forgotten Russian Masterpiece: Konstantin Paustovsky's 'Story of a Life'” as a part of the Russian History Museum’s Second Saturday online lecture series. In 1943, the Soviet author Konstantin Paustovsky started out on what [...]
On Saturday, October 7, Dr. Joachim Pissarro presented “Rise and Fall of an Ideology: From Utopia to Dissent" as a part of the Russian History Museum’s Second Saturday online lecture series. In this lecture, Dr. Joachim Pissarro addressed the surprising meandering that took [...]
On Saturday, September 9, Michael Perekrestov presented “Mysteries and Odysseys: Stories of Unlikely Journeys and Unexpected Discoveries" as a part of the Russian History Museum’s Second Saturday online lecture series. Michael Perekrestov, the museum’s Executive Director, shared some of the surprising recent revelations [...]
On Saturday, June 10, Dr. Thomas Hodge presented "Ivan Turgenev: Russian Turmoil, Russian Nature" as a part of the Russian History Museum’s Second Saturday online lecture series. Ivan Turgenev was one of Russia’s finest nature writers. In his short stories, essays, and novels, he [...]
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, [...]
