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...between states, and democracy and democratic rule were everywhere ascendant. Even traditionally conservative Germany was moving in a democratic direction, as the parliament became more representative, powerful, and willing to confront the Kaiser. The most “brutally repressive” political regime of that time—Czarist Russia—was admittedly harsh, yet in over one hundred years it killed less than four thousand people...
...While you don't need the services of a specialist to enjoy the old Czarist summer gardens at Peterhof in St. Petersburg or the alluring Moorish gardens in Granada, Spain, expert help can get you past some lesser-known garden walls. The private estancias of Uruguay or the hidden villas of Italy, for example, offer gardens all the more exquisite because they are almost never opened to the public. "A garden is most appreciated when it is peaceful. And special private visits are now very popular," says Sue Macdonald of U.K.-based company Boxwood Tours...
...Built by Muscovites in 1901, the Lungmen has changed hands as often as Harbin itself. Not only was it a hotel during the Japanese occupation, it was also once a hospital, a Czarist embassy, and a hostel for Soviet advisers. Renovations last year uncovered original marble floors and restored the wainscoting. With chandeliers, brass fittings and just two floors of rooms, the Lungmen rates an adjective rarely applied to a Chinese hotel: intimate. My room's floor-to-ceiling windows framed locust trees and pistachio-color Russian buildings; lying on white sheets in a fluffy bed, China felt very...
...reorganized the visual space of an entire society." But, as the exhibition attests, artistic talent could occasionally shine through, transcending the intended ideology. Kazimir Malevich's 1928 Reapers, a bold, block-colored painting of three peasant women, is as stunning as the groundbreaking abstracts that made him famous in Czarist days. And Alexander Deineka's 1931 On the Balcony owes more to Bonnard or Matisse than to Stalin. But it is the affinity between Stalinist art and American commercial art that drives the show. Both evolved almost simultaneously on the strength of new media developments. Both aimed at mass appeal...
...early 20th-century Anatevka, a small town in the Russian Pale—the region where many Jews were confined under Russian czarist rule—Fiddler tells the story of Tevye the milkman and his five daughters. With music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and a book by Joseph Stein, the 1960s musical is based on a story by writer Sholom Aleichem...