With Love From Russia

 Boris Kustodiyev, The Bolshevik, 1920

 Aleksander Rodchenko, On the balloon. Maneuvers of the Red army, 1924

 Georgy Bibikov, Balloon "Osoaviachim", 1935

 Victor Perelman, Workers correspondent, 1925

Anom., Izvestia newspaper’s correspondent Vladislav Mikosha at seeing-off expedition to North Pole, March 21, 1937 

 Anom., Leo Trotsky, 1920

 Isaak Brodsky, Lenin in Smolniy in 1917, 1930

Anom., Portrait of militiaman, 1931

K.A. Vjalov, Policeman, 1923

 Aleksander Rodchenko, Stepanova [his wife] with a cigarette, 1924

 Alexander Rodchenko, Lilia Brik in gauzy dress, 1924

Alexander Grinberg, Natasha, 1930s

Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov, Portrait of Helena Annenkova, the Artist's Wife, 1917

 Boris Kustodiyev, Russian Venus, 1925

 Kazimir Malevich, Portrait of Artist's Wife N.A. Malevich, 1933

 Vladimir Tatlin, Monument of the Communist International, 1920

 Konstantin Melnikov’s Soviet Pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts 1925 

Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov, Architectural Fantasies (1925-33)

 Yuri Pimenov, New Moscow, 1937

 Mark Markov-Grinberg, Change of symbols. Installation of a star on the Kremlin tower, 1935 

 Anom., Concert of Factory Sirens and Steam Whistles, early 1920s

Yuri Pimenov, Industrialization or Bust!, 1927

Arkadi Shayhet, Komsomolec at the steering wheel of paper-making machines. Balakhna 1931 

 Alexander Deyneka, Heroes of the first Five, 1936

Mark Markov-Grinberg, Famous miner Nikita Izotov, 1934 

 Margaret Bourke-White, Stalingrad 1931

Closeup portrait of Russian iron puddler w. glasses parked over his brow, at the "Red October" Rolling Mills.

Yevgeny Khaldei, Magnitogorsk 1949, Steel Workers

 Vladmir Tatlin, Self-Portrait, 1911

 Alexander Rodchenko, Potemkin Movie Poster, c. 1925

Yakov Nikolayevich Halip, On the guard. Baltic 1936

Alexei Pakhomov, Bathing of Red Army Sailors Plummeting from a Ship, 1933

 Dmitry Debabov, The “Krasin” ice-breaker in arctic ice, 1936 

Sergei Khvorostov, Arctic deep-water expedition into the high latitudes, 2007

 Sophia Tolstaya, Leo Tolstoy during illness with his daughter Tatyana. Gaspra 1902 

Mikhail Nesterov, Portrait of Lev Tolstoy, 1907

Mikhail Nesterov, Philosophers, 1917

 Miron Sherling, Fedor Chaliapin as the Miller (in the opera “Rusalka” by Dargomyzhsky), 1913 

Boris Kustodiyev, Portrait of Fyodor Chaliapin, 1921

Vasili Ulitin, The falme of Paris, 1932 

Alexandra Exter, Design for a Constructivist stage setting, c. 1920

Alexandr Deineka, Demonstration, 1928

 Yuri Annenkov, Portrait of Maxim Gorky, 1920

Anatol Petrytsky, European (for the ballet "RED POPPY"), 1927

Khrisanf Khersonsky, Portrait Vsevolod Meyerkhold, 1921

Anom., Dmitry Shostakovich, Vsevolod Meyerkhold, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Alexander Rodchenko during work above performance “The bug”, 1929

Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev, Portrait of the Producer Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold, 1916

George Petrusov, Caricature Portrait of Alexander Rodchenko, 1933/34

Alexander Rodchenko, Majakowski, 1920s

Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev, Portrait of the Composer Sergei Rakhmaninov, 1930

 Alexander Laktionov, Portrait of the Artist I. Brodsky, 1939

 Margaret Bourke-White, Moscow 1941
Locomotive named Stalin is studied by students at the Locomotive Laboratory of the Technical Institute as top instructors (L) wearing enameled red decorative pins, lecture on its mechanics.

Arkadij Šajchet: Express Train, 1940

 

 Le Transibérien

 

  Maks Al'pert, Wiktor Kalmikow in the Train to Magnitogorsk, 1930

 

  Frank Ward, Subway, Moscow

 George Lipskerov, Winged propagandists in collective farm, 1933 

Gustav Klucis's poster 'Young People - To The Aeroplanes' (1934)

Leonidov, Commissariat of Heavy Industry Moscow, 1934

George Petrusov, Airplane “Maxim Gorki”, 1934 

 Emmanuil Evzerihin, Tushino. Moscow 1936 

Alexander Deyneka, The knocked down ace, 1943

Viktor Rujkovich, Way to Pamir, 1957 

 Sergey Burasovsky, Geodesists among Arctic ice, 1986

 Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Death of a Comissary, 1920s

 Alexei Katseblin, Ski raid in Karelia, 1933

 Margaret Bourke-White, Moscow 1941

Russian kindergarten boys clad in miniature caps w. red stars, aiming toy rifles, barricaded behind classroom furniture, while playing war game.

 Dmitri Baltermants, Attack, 1941

 Max Alpert, Battalion commander, 1942 

 Alexander Deyneka, The defense of Sevastopol, 1942

Georgi Zelma, Tank (Rodina). Stalingrad, 1942

 Evgeni Khaldey, Victory banner over Reichstag. Berlin, 1945

 A. Lindorf, The Stalingraders in the Berlin tram, 1945 

Anatoli Egorov, The musical moment. Breslau 1945 

Evgeni Khaldey, Beaten standards. Parade of the Victory on the Red square. Moscow, June 25, 1945

 Dmitri Baltermants, Reciprocal Offering of Food - such is the Kashmir Custom of the Highest Hospitality, 1955 

Dmitri Baltermants, Nikita Sergeevich Chruschev in Bulgaria, c. 1960

 Solzhenitsyn returning from exile. Arrival to Ryazan, 1956

Emmanuil Evzerihin, New Hotel “Ukraine”. Moscow, 1957 

 Victor Akhlomov, Red Square. Moscow 1959 

Victor Akhlomov, Yuri Gagarin and Che Guevara. Moscow May 11, 1964

 Victor Akhlomov, Enrolment in the Pioneers. Moscow 1970 

Anom., Ruslan and “Teddy Boys”. Pub at Fontanka street, Leningrad 1984

Sergey Borisov, Le défilé, 1987 

 Pentti Sammallahti, Solovki, White Sea, 1992

Anom., Participants of meeting lasting many days. Grozny 1994

Blue noses, Revolution Continues, 2004

Dreamscapes I

L'homme en Général est un Alcibiade: A Force d'Amabilité il est partout l'enfant flatteur de la Nature. Par Complaisance envers elle il est Nègre et Esquimau, Européen et Tatare, Jaméo et Grec selon l'usage du pays. - Novalis, Neue Fragmente, Von der geheimen Welt, 2043

Thomas Cole, The Titan's Goblet, 1833

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, The Gate in the Rocks, 1818

Moritz von Schwind, A Player with a Hermit, 1846

Ivan Constantinovich Aivasovsky, Moonlit Seascape With Shipwreck

Joseph Wright of Derby, Lake with Castle on a Hill, 1787

El Greco, View of Toledo, 1596

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, In the palace of the Queen of the night, c.1820

Frantisek Kupka, Babylon, 1906

Thomas Cole, The Architect's Dream, 1840

 Erastus Salisbury Field, Historical Monument of the American Republic, 1867

Gustave Moreau, The Triumph of Alexander the Great, 1885 

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire Destruction, 1836

John Martin, Le Pandemonium, 1841

 "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling." (Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and the Beautiful, 1757)

Joseph Gandy, Soane's Bank of England as a ruin, 1830

On Christmas Day 1843, Joseph Gandy died in one of the windowless cells of a private asylum in Devon. He was the greatest perspective artist in the history of British architecture - dubbed "The English Piranesi" - and one of the great visionaries of the Romantic movement. No one knows where he is buried. Since the days of surrealism he has been a cult figure.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Mittelalterliche Stadt am Fluss, 1815

 Andreas Roller, Landscape with a Bridge and Fortress, 1843

 Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann, Heidelberg, 1815

 Hubert Sattler, Salzburg im Winter. Blick von Mülln auf die Stadt, c. 1850

Caspar David Friedrich, Winter Landscape with Church, 1811

Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Procession in the Fog, 1828

Arnold Böcklin - Island of the Dead, Third Version, 1883

William Turner, Alnwick Castle, 1829

 Albert Goodwin, Ponte di pietra a Verona, 1896

 Martin Johnson Heade, The Great Florida Marsh, 1872

 Martin Johnson Heade, Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds, 1871

 Hubert Sattler, Der Tempel von Tulum in Yukatan (Mexiko), 1836

 E. F. Schute, Cachoeira de Paulo Afonso, 1850

 Sigismond Himely, Mouth of Fox River in Indiana, 1837