The Russian History Museum will present a new special exhibition, Mysteries and Odysseys, opening July 16, 2023. The museum is temporarily closed for exhibit installation. The upcoming exhibition will feature recent discoveries that shed new light on museum artifacts, and will highlight noteworthy historical [...]
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 [...]
We are thrilled to announce that four dedicated donors and board members are matching all donations made by December 31, up to $40,000! Donate Now Will you help us reach our total goal of $80,000 by 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 [...]
