You are holding in your hands the second book of unique lectures by art history professor Paola Dmitrievna Volkova, delivered at the Higher Courses for Direc...

There are people who need no introduction. There are books that do not need annotation. The Diary of Paola Volkova is just such a book by just such a person....

The book “Great Artists: A Big Book of Masters and Epochs” combines the final two volumes of the “Bridge Over the Abyss” series - the legendary series of lec...

Can the birth of Zeus, the birth of Christ, the Bolsheviks led by V. I. Lenin and the culture of the Renaissance be connected? And what does the underground ...

The book “From the Ancient World to the Renaissance” combines three volumes of the “Bridge Over the Abyss” series - the legendary series of lectures by Paola...

The history of impressionism, which once and for all influenced all subsequent art, covers only 12 years: from the first exhibition in 1874, where the famous...

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The life of the Tarkovsky family, as well as most Russian families, is full of tragic events: exile to Siberia, death in the Civil War, severe injury of Arse...