Russia, officially the Russian Federation, is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 140 million people.
The western European part of the country is much more populated and urbanized than the eastern. Russia’s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world. Other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan.
Russia is rich in museums of all types.
Museums in Russia
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Museums in Moscow
- Pushkin Museum
- Tretyakov Gallery
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Museums in Saint Petersburg
- Hermitage Museum
- State Russian Museum
A Virtual Tour of the Tretyakov Gallery
- “The Vision to the Youth Bartholomew” by Mikhail Nesterov
- “Bogatyrs” by Viktor Vasnetsov
- “The Morning of the Streltsy Execution” by Vasily Surikov
- “Morning in a Pine Forest” by Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky
A Virtual Tour of the Pushkin Museum
- “Bucentaur’s return to the pier by the Palazzo Ducale” by Canaletto
- Priam’s Treasure
- “Seagulls, the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament” by Claude Monet
- “Not to work” by Paul Gauguin
- “Horse Attacked by a Jaguar” by Henri Rousseau
A Virtual Tour of the State Russian Museum
- “Portrait of Anna Akhmatova” by Nathan Altman
- “The Last Day of Pompeii” by Karl Bryullov
- “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks” by Ilya Repin
- “The Ninth Wave” by Ivan Aivazovsky
A Virtual Tour the Hermitage Museum
- “Madonna Litta” attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
- Composition VI by Kandinsky
- “Portrait of Doña Antonia Zárate” by Francisco Goya
- “White House at Night” by Vincent van Gogh
- “The Three Graces” by Antonio Canova
- Egyptian Collection in the Hermitage Museum
- Gonzaga Cameo
- “Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss” by Antonio Canova
- “The Stolen Kiss” by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- “Boulevard Montmartre” by Camille Pissarro
- “Three Tahitian Women Against a Yellow Background” by Paul Gauguin
- “Conestabile Madonna” by Raphael
- “Struggle between Tiger and Bull” by Henri Rousseau
- “Landscape with Diana and Callisto” by Cornelis van Pulenburg
- “The Return of the Prodigal Son” by Rembrandt
- “Daedalus and Icarus” by Charles Le Brun
- Aphrodite Kallipygos
- “Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog” by Claude Monet
Russian Proverbs and Quotes
- Russian Proverbs and Quotes
Russian Federation Museums
- Country: Russian Federation
- Political Capital: Moscow.
- Largest City: Moscow
- Population: 140 million
- Formation:
- The arrival of Rurik – 862
- Kievan Rus – 882
- Grand Duchy – 1283
- Tsardom – 1547
- Empire – 1721
- Republic – 1917
- Russian SFSR – 1917
- Soviet Union – 1922
- Sovereignty Declaration – 1990
- Russian Federation – 1991
A Virtual Tour of Museum and Art
- Pushkin Museum
- Hermitage Museum
- Popular Paintings
- Popular Sculpture
- Ancient Historical Artifacts
- Historical Sites
- Christian Art
- Buddhist Art
- Egyptian Art
- Mythological Paintings
- History Paintings
- Portraits
- Artists and their Art
- Russian Proverbs and Quotes
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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Photo Credits: 1) By Petar Milošević [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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