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...achievement has always been hard to assess because so much of his late work, done between his final departure from France in 1895 and his death on the tiny, remote island of Hivaoa in 1903, was bought en bloc by Russian collectors, ended up in the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum, and has not been seen in the West since 1906. The show contains eleven of these "Russian" Gauguins...
...Literature has sometimes sustained the Russians when almost everything else was gone. During the siege of Leningrad, the city's population, frozen and starving down to the verge of cannibalism, drew strength by listening to a team of poets as they read on the radio from the works of Pushkin and other writers. "Never before nor ever in the future," said a survivor, "will people listen to poetry as did Leningrad in that winter -- hungry, swollen and hardly living." Today Russians will fill a stadium to hear a poetry reading...
...Book publishing first flourished in Russia under Catherine the Great, and yet it was she who used local police, corrupt and ignorant, to enforce the country's first censorship regulations. Czar Nicholas I conducted a sort of terrorism against certain books and writers. He functioned as personal censor for Pushkin and banished Dostoyevsky to Siberia. Revolution only encouraged the Russian candle-snuffers. Lenin said, "Ideas are much more fatal things than guns," a founder's nihil obstat that culminated in the years of poet destruction (Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva) and book murder under Stalin...
Pizza Huts in the land of Pushkin? Oreo cookies in Omsk? Big Macs in Belgrade? ! Yes, all that -- and more. Maybe...
Through wind and rain for up to six hours, hundreds of Muscovites waited last week outside the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum. Two years after his death and following more than half a century of official neglect, Marc Chagall was being honored in his native land with a major retrospective. Neither the artist's dreamy images of village life nor his Jewish themes endeared him to Soviet authorities. After Chagall went into voluntary exile in France in 1922, many of the works he had left behind were banished to museum storerooms...