Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin, a Russian entrepreneur with the main ... in the world to start buying the canvasses of Impressionist painters, who were often criticized and misunderstood by fellow ...

"Izvestia was among the first to evaluate the project. When the Museum of Russian Impressionism (MRI) appeared in Moscow nine years ago, its very name caused a lot of skeptical comments among art ...

Nonetheless, the Anonymous society of painters, sculptors, and printmakers, as the group of 31 artists behind the first Impressionist exhibition called themselves, hadn’t initially set out to stage an ...