2026 №2

Summary
Term
Sharif Shukurov
On Accuracy in the Humanities
Monument
Ekaterina Larina
Theoretical Prerequisite of Alois Riegl’s “Monument” Concept: The Problem of Influences
Art Nouveau
Alexei Kurbanovsky
“Sugar Kremlin”: The Birth of Art Nouveau out of the Spirit of (National) Folklore
Iconography
Denis Khlebnikov
The Saviour in Power vs. Majestas: The Saviour in Glory in Western Miniature as Compared to Russian Iconography
Yuri Danovich
Iconography of the “Mystery of the Cross”: Origins, Variations, and Influence
Regina Gaynullina
Capriccioso e sofistico. “Mary Magdalene” by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo Between the Religious and the Secular
Italy - Russia
Elena Sharnova
“The Old Master, Unlearned”: Fra Beato Angelico in Russia in the Mid-19th Century (1840s–1860s)
Visuality
Maria Chukcheeva
Valery Jacobie’s “Morning at the Court of Anna Ioannovna” and the Domestication of the National Past in Russian Art
Sofia Lavrova
From “Russian” to “Soviet”: Transformations in the Art of the USSR at the Carnegie Institute Exhibitions (1924–1935)
Kirill Chunikhin
Cold War Realism: The Visual History of the United States in Soviet Art History
Cultural Politics
Semen Dymshits, Maria Romanenkova
“Let’s show the audience an artist, not the God-dauber”. The Popular Science Film “The Artist Andrei Rublev” (1958)
Gabo
Olga Pevsner
Naum Gabo on Russian Art in the Era of Revolution. In Interview with S. F. Starr and K. Frampton (1969)
Book Reviews
Tigran Mkrtychev
The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia, 1920s–1940s. Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, 2025