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As a serious artistic activity, Russian painting really dates only from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As the Russian Symbolist poet Alexander Blok put it, Russian culture is a combination of cultures, we are a new country. Blok’s new country was actually synthetic and coldly calculated created at the beginning of the eighteenth century with Peter the Great¹s westernization of Old Russia. This had often been carried out with great brutality. And in some ways so too had Peter¹s introduction of western culture, art and architecture. Russian society was originally tribal and backward; its art was either primitive and decorative or religious. This episode presents numerous examples of paintings from this unique period in Russian history. |
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| Ratings: | IMDB: 0.0/10 | |
| Released: | January 1, 2000 | |
| Runtime: | 50 min | |
| Genres: | Documentary | |
| Crew: | Dominique Mougenot | |
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