On Saturday, March 19th this talk by Helen Rappaport was presented as a part of our Second Saturday online lecture series. This Zoom program examined figures like Princess Olga Paley and her husband Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, the Yusupovs, and stars from [...]
Russian Exiles in Paris After the 1917 Revolution An online lecture by Dr. Helen Rappaport The Romanov flight from Russia is but one part of a much bigger story. There is also a whole untold tale of thousands of writers, poets, artists, politicians, academics, intellectuals [...]
Nicholas Nicholson, Curator Another Narrow Escape Princess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia had only thirty minutes to pack her things and leave the castle of Altenburg in Germany where she had lived since 1938. The Soviet forces could arrive at any [...]
On July 10th, author and historian Douglas Smith presented "Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy." This presentation was part of the Russian History Museum's larger Second Saturday lecture series. Douglas Smith's lecture examined the lives and stories of two [...]
On June 12th, Dr. Pamela A. Jordan presented "Stalin’s Singing Spy: The Life and Exile of Nadezhda Plevitskaya." This lecture presentation was part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday lecture series. Dr. Jordan's presentation explores the remarkable life of Nadezhda Plevitskaya (c. [...]
On January 9th, art historian Wendy Salmond presented an online lecture titled "The Old Russian Style and the Arts of Nostalgia." This presentation was part of the Russian History Museum's Second Saturday lecture series. In the closing decades of the Russian Empire [...]
Performing a la russe: Russian Émigré Music in 1920s Harlem An online lecture by Dr. Natalie Zelensky While much has been written about the Russian émigré communities of Paris, Berlin, and Prague, the cultural mileiu of Russian émigrés in New York City has been little [...]
