On May 31, 1912 The Museum of Fine Arts named after Emperor Alexander III was opened ... too. These paintings formed a nucleus of the Pushkin Museum's collections of Western art.

It houses the largest collection of European art in Moscow, and it was named in honor of one of Russia's premier poets, Alexander Pushkin. You don't go here to read sonnets, though. Instead ...

An anonymous woodcut from the collection of Muzeum Literatury in Warsaw was used. Author: Matej Kaniewski for Culture.pl Written in 1833, Alexander Pushkin’s Bronze Horseman kickstarted a new and ...