St. Sophia, Kiev: interior of dome with Christ Pantocrator and Angels. 1037-61. Byzantine mosaic.Location:St. Sophia, Kiev, UkrainePhoto Credit:Andrea Jemolo/Scala / Art Resource, NY

Christ in GloryRussian (Novgorod?) Painter, late 15th century Medium: Tempera on wood Dimensions: 42 1/8 x 30 7/8 in. (107 x 78.4 cm)

Photo · Cathedral of St. Basil Moscow, Russia

Details:Anonymous, 19th centurySt. Isaac Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, ca. 1880. Photograph.Photo Credit:Adoc-photos / Art Resource, NY

Façade of the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage

St. Petersberg, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe and Yury Velten1764-75

Etienne Maurice Falconet, (1716-1791)

Monument to Peter the Great. 1782.

Location:St. Petersburg, Russia

Photo Credit:Bridgeman-Giraudon / Art Resource, NY

Portrait of Countess Samoilova

Hillwood Mansion, Pavilion

Oil PaintingKarl Pavlovich BriullovITALY1832-1834Oil on canvasH. 105 9/16 in., W. 78 3/4 in.

Imperial Peter the Great Easter Egg1903

Fabergé firm (Russian , 20th century) Mikhail Perkhin, Workmaster (Russian , 1860 - 1903) Vasilii Zuiev, Painter of miniatures (Russian , 1870 - unknown) Gold, platinum, diamonds, rubies, enamel, bronze, sapphire, watercolor on ivory, rock crystal4.25 x 3.125 (diameter) in.10.80 x 7.94 (diameter) cm.

Illustration for "L'oiseau de Feu" [Tsarevich Ivan on the Horse with the Golden Mane of Tsar Afron]Boris Zvorykin (Russian, Moscow 1872–1942 Paris)

Date: ca. 1925 Medium: Gouache, metallic inks, and black ink, heightened with white, over graphite. Dimensions: Image: 10 7/8 x 8 3/16 in. (27.6 x 20.8 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 9/16 in. (34.9 x 26.8 cm) Classification: Drawings

Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) © ARS, NYThe Tsar's Palace. Stage set for "The Golden Cock", opera by Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov. Collage, gouache on paper (1914), 65 x 97 cm. Location: A. Bakhrushin, Museum of the History of Theatre, Moscow, RussiaPhoto Credit:Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

Léon Bakst (designer, Russian, 1866–1924), Tutu and coronet worn by Anna Pavlova in Le Mort du Cygne (The Dying Swan), Russia, early 20th century. Net, goose feathers, and stone. Lent by the Bancroft Library.

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855–1888)

Artist: Ilia Efimovich Repin (Russian, Chuguev 1844–1930 Kuokkala)

Date: 1884 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 35 x 27 1/4 in. (88.9 x 69.2 cm)

I and the Village 1911

Marc Chagall (French, born Belarus. 1887–1985)Oil on canvas, 6' 3 5/8" x 59 5/8" (192.1 x 151.4 cm). Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Proun, 1924–25

El LissitzkyRussian, 1890-1941

Motherland is calling!(or “The Motherland Calls”)

Irakli Toidze, 1941

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, Moscow,Dmitry Chechylin and Andrei Rostkovsky, 1947–52

Blindman’s Buff

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid,1982–83

Artist: Alexander Melamid (American, born Moscow, 1945)

Artist: Vitaly Komar (American, born Moscow, 1943)

Date: 1982–83

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: H. 72, W. 47 inches (182.9 x 119.4 cm.)

Untitled (Washington and Lenin)

Leonid Lamm (American, born in Russia 1928)

Date: 1991 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: H. 70, W. 70 inches (177.8 x 177.8 cm.)