Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Vkhutemas, the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, has been compared to Bauhaus.

In Byzantine and Russian art, the theme of the Miracle of the Archangel Michael at Chonae ( Τὸ ἐν Χωναῖς / Χῶναις Θαῦμα τοῦ Ἀρχαγγέλου Μιχαήλ ) is intimately linked with the site.

A centaur-like half-human half-equine creature called Polkan appeared in Russian folk art, and lubok prints of the 17th – 19th centuries.

* 1832 – Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art ( d. 1897 )

Therefore, in German art Tod ( m .) " death " is generally portrayed as male, but in Russian Смерть ( f .) " death " is generally portrayed as a female.

From that time icons began to be painted not only in the traditional stylized and nonrealistic mode, but also in a mixture of Russian stylization and Western European realism, and in a Western European manner very much like that of Catholic religious art of the time.

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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ( see names ) ( 23 February 1879, previously 1878: see below15 May 1935 ) was a Russian painter and art theoretician.

By that time his works were influenced by Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Russian avant-garde painters who were particularly interested in Russian folk art called lubok.

Since then art followers have labored to reintroduce the artist to Russian lovers of painting.

On 3 November 2008 a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby ’ s in New York City for just over $ 60 million U. S. ( far surpassing his previous record of $ 17 million set in 2000 ).

* 1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic ( b. 1837 )

The development of Russian cinema in the 1920s by such filmmakers as Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein saw considerable progress in the use of the motion picture as a propaganda tool, yet it also served to develop the art of moviemaking.

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

Although not instantly received into the group, Diaghilev was aided by Benois in developing his knowledge of Russian and Western art.

In 1905 he mounted a huge exhibition of Russian portrait painting in St Petersburg, having travelled widely through Russia for a year discovering many previously unknown masterpieces of Russian portrait art.

In the following year he took a major exhibition of Russian art to the Petit Palais in Paris.

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A form of Chinese art, the Nianhua, depict such torpedoes being used against Russian ships during the Boxer Rebellion, whether they were actually used in battle against them was undocumented and unknown.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (, Vasiliy Vasil ’ yevich Kandinskiy, ; – 13 December 1944 ) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist.

The Life of Vasilii Kandinsky in Russian art: a study of " On the spiritual in art " by Wassily Kandinsky.

* Yevgeny Alexeyevich Kornilov ( b. 1940 ), Russian historian and media researcher

* September 14 – Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Russian researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1936 )

The Russian chemist and science historian Lev Chugaev has characterized him as " a chemist of genius, first-class physicist, a fruitful researcher in the fields of hydrodynamics, meteorology, geology, certain branches of chemical technology ( explosives, petroleum, and fuels, for example ) and other disciplines adjacent to chemistry and physics, a thorough expert of chemical industry and industry in general, and an original thinker in the field of economy.

According to the Russian researcher A.

The Australian Rain Corporation presented research documents written in Russian, explained by a Russian researcher who spoke to local experts in Russian.

His diary was believed to have been burned and lost in Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, but rediscovered by Kennosuke Nakamura, a Russian literary researcher, and published in 2004 as Dnevniki Sviatogo Nikolaia Iaponskogo ( 5 vols.

According to researcher Gordon Bennett, the conspiracy theory that the FSB was behind the bombings is kept alive by the Russian oligarch and Kremlin-critic Boris Berezovsky.

He was a mission specialist on STS-7 in 1983, STS-51-B in 1985, STS-30 in 1989, was the payload commander on STS-42 in 1992, and was the cosmonaut / researcher on the Russian Mir-18 mission in 1995.

The meeting was attended by 30 people including Academicians Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Karl Ernst von Baer ( elected the first President of the Russian Entomological Society ) and Alexander von Middendorff the famous explorer and researcher of Siberia.

Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport ( 1863, Chashniki – 1920, Otwock ), known by his pseudonym S. Ansky ( or An-sky ), was a Russian Jewish author, playwright, and researcher of Jewish folklore.

Mort Setrin, a developer of the radar IFF, was also a researcher at this time and helped analyze ways to jam Russian radars.

Another Polish researcher Gembarowicz's opinion is that the number of the Russian army was about 40, 000.

She turned down a university place to read English and Russian in favour of a job on the East Kilbride News, her local newspaper, and then joined BBC Scotland as a researcher in 1983.

* Semyon Davidovich Kirlian ( 1898 – 1978 ), Russian inventor and researcher of Armenian descent

) (, Rochensalm ( current Kotka ), southern Finland –, Saint Petersburg ), was a Russian naval officer, aviation pioneer, researcher and designer of heavier-than-air craft.

Dobrokhotov and other critics, including Russian Orthodox researcher Nikolay Uspensky, Dr. Aleksandr Musin of Sorbonne, and some Old Believers quote excerpts from the diaries of Bishop Porphyrius ( Uspensky ) ( 1804 – 1885 ) which told that the clergy in Jerusalem knew that the Holy Fire was fraudulent.

* Alexandr Aksakov ( 1832 – 1903 ), Russian author, translator, journalist, editor and psychic researcher

British researcher Neil Melvin concludes that Estonia is moving towards a genuinely pluralist democratic society through its liberalization of citizenship and actively drawing of leaders of the Russian settler communities into the political process.

Nikolai Alekseevich Rynin ( December 23, 1887 – July 28, 1942 ) was a Russian civil engineer, teacher, aerospace researcher, author, historian, and promoter of space travel.

According to Russian researcher Valeriy Chernetsov, who published The Rock Images of Ural ( 1st volume in 1964, 2nd volume in 1971 ), the Ural pictograms generally depict the hunting utensil.

Alexander Leonidovich Zhmodikov (, born 1968 ) is a Russian historic researcher ( higher technical education ).