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Introduction to Russian Culture
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1881-1917
3. The Fall of the Romanovs


The Last Tsars

  1. Alexander III
  2. Alexander III
  3. Gatchina
  4. Nicholas II
  5. Emperor Nicholas II
  6. Rasputin
  7. State Hermitage Museum: Reign of Nicholas II
  8. Rooms of Nicholas II in the Alexander Palace
  9. Nicholas and Alexandra photographed in 1894
  10. Abdication Manifesto of Nicholas II, 2 March 1917
  11. Manifesto of Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 3 March 1917

Folk Culture
  1. Epic Songs: Byliny
  2. Ilya Muromets
  3. Ilya Muromets and the Nightingale Robber
  4. The Frog Princess and Other Folk Tales
  5. The Frog Princess and Other Folk Tales
  6. Russian Fairy Tales
  7. Folk Images
  8. Ivan Bilibin Biography
  9. Ivan Bilibin Art Index
  10. Russian Folk Songs
  11. Songs in Russian
  12. Gzhel
  13. Gzhel
  14. Zhostovo
  15. Lubok
  16. Russian Folklore--Links

The Silver Age of Russian Literature
  1. The Silver Age of Russian Poetry
  2. Alexander Blok
  3. Alexander Blok
  4. Alexander Blok
  5. Alexander Blok
  6. Zinaida Gippius
  7. Zinaida Gippius
  8. Andrey Bely
  9. Andrey Bely
  10. Andrey Bely
  11. Valery Bryusov
  12. Valery Bryusov
  13. Vladimir Mayakovsky
  14. Vladimir Mayakovsky
  15. Vladimir Mayakovsky
  16. Velimir Khlebnikov
  17. Velimir Khlebnikov
  18. Igor Severyanin
  19. Igor Severyanin
  20. Anna Akhmatova
  21. Anna Akhmatova
  22. Osip Mandelshtam
  23. Osip Mandelshtam
  24. Osip Mandelshtam
  25. Nikolai Gumilyov
  26. Nikolai Gumilyov
  27. Marina Tsvetaeva
  28. Marina Tsvetaeva

Toward Non-Representational Painting
  1. Mikhail Vrubel
  2. Mikhail Vrubel
  3. Mikhail Vrubel
  4. Mikhail Vrubel
  5. Vasily Kandinsky
  6. Vasily Kandinsky
  7. Vasily Kandinsky
  8. Vasily Kandinsky
  9. Marc Chagall
  10. Marc Chagall
  11. Marc Chagall
  12. Marc Chagall
  13. Kasimir Malevich
  14. Kasimir Malevich
  15. Kasimir Malevich
  16. Kasimir Malevich
  17. Russian Art

Experimentation in Music and Ballet
  1. Rakhmaninov Lover's Home Page
  2. Rachmaninoff Society
  3. Sergei Rakhmaninov
  4. A. N. Scriabin
  5. Alexander Scriabin
  6. Igor Stravinsky
  7. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
  8. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
  9. Stravinsky's Religious Works
  10. The Beginnings of Russian Ballet
  11. History of the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet
  12. The Mariinsky (Kirov) Theatre
  13. Ballet History
  14. For Ballet Lovers Only
  15. The Petipa Dynasty
  16. Swan Lake History
  17. Sergei Diaghilev
  18. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
  19. Stravinsky's Firebird
  20. Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring"
  21. Mikhail Fokine
  22. Leonide Massine
  23. Anna Pavlova
  24. Tamara Karsavina
  25. Vaslav Nijinsky
  26. World of Art Gallery

The Stage
  1. Anton Chekhov
  2. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
  3. The Anton Chekhov Page (links)
  4. Chekhov's Writing Revolution
  5. The Cherry Orchard Play Notes
  6. Gorky's Recollections of Chekhov
  7. The Seagull
  8. Chekhov's Stories and Plays
  9. Konstantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938)
  10. Konstantin Stanislavsky
  11. Stanislavsky Method
  12. The Moscow Art Theater around 1900
  13. Early 20th-Century Plays
  14. Vsevolod Meyerhold
  15. Early Twentieth-Century Russian Theater
  16. Russian Theater Website

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