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Sports and recreation
Sports played a major role in the Soviet state in the post-World War II period. The achievements of Soviet athletes in the international arena,...
Cultural institutions
Some of the most-renowned museums in the world are found in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In Moscow the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum houses treasures of western European art, while...
The performing arts The 20th century
Producer Serge Diaghilev and directors Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold dominated Russian theatrical life in the first decades of the 20th century. Together with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Stanislavsky founded the Moscow Art...
The performing arts The 19th century
Ballet was first introduced in Russia in the early 18th century, and the country’s first school was formed in 1734. However, much of Russian dance was...
The visual arts The 20th century
As with literature, there was a burst of creativity in the visual arts in the early 20th century, with Russian painters playing a major...
The visual arts The 19th century
Like music, the visual arts in Russia were slower to develop along European lines than was literature. With the exception of the portraitist Dmitry Levitsky,...
Music of Russia The 20th century
Three major Russian composers emerged in the early 20th century: Aleksandr Scriabin, Sergey Rachmaninoff, and Igor Stravinsky. Scriabin, a piano virtuoso, infused his music with mysticism and...
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