Life or Karma? Stories of Narva

1. Popular Peter the Great

 

2. Portraiture, rules and ruler

 

3. Regalia of power

 

4. Repetition creates the illusion of truth

 

5. An unexpected encounter

 

6. Justice is served

 

7. The saint and the tsar

 

8. Changing history painting

 

9. The empress’s triumphal entrance

 

10. An art collector’s self-advertisement

 

11. The official visage of the empress

 

12. An artwork as imperial trademark

 

13. A figurine that signifies respect

 

14. Antecedents from the art of antiquity

 

15. From main square to museum

 

16. A day in the life of a working-class neighbourhood

 

17. An alternative view

 

18. The artist and propaganda

 

19. The artist on the construction site

 

20. Documenting modernization

 

21. Toward communist utopia

 

22. Heroes of labour

 

23. Poster or monument?

 

 

24. Symbol of suffering

 

25. The St. George’s Night Uprising as an ideological weapon

 

26. Ruins of Narva

 

27. Artists on the frontlines

 

28. Pictures of war

 

29. The Swedish King’s victory at Narva

 

30. War propaganda from centuries ago

 

31. Toward a bright future

 

32. The heroic cuirassier

 

 

33. A pair of Baroque portaits

 

34. A once lost painting

 

35. Flaming Vera

 

36. Stylish people

 

37. Captain Manko’s Messenger Kolya

 

38. Mischief makers in school

 

39. A bourgeois idyll

 

40. Idyllic rural life

 

41. A fashionable French lady

 

42. Prodigal son

 

43. Honestly face to face with oneself

 

44. The first Russian comic artist?

 

45. A memorial portrait of a philanthropist

 

46. White line

 

47. On the trail of a primeval source

 

48. Kuzja Zverev’s self-mythological world

 

49. A different kind of Kreenholm

 

50. A gift from the artist

 

51. A text’s second life

 

52. From textile designer to independent artist

 

53. Spring art celebration