The Great Britain -
Russia Society
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Spring-Summer 2026
Cover illustration:
The First Date. A modern sculpture seen in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine. Artist unidentified.
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Spring/Summer 2025
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Photograph taken by the pioneering Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii in 1909 'in a rural area along the Sheksna river near the small town of
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New Year 2025
Front cover:
Art work for title page of Bododin's Prince Igor commissioned by the St Petersburg and Leipzig publisher M P Belaieff
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Autumn 2017
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The wooden mansion at Pogorelovo.
Photograph © William C Brumfield.
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Autumn 2018
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Black Ravens, by Boris Vladimirski (1878-1950).
These cars were used by the NKVD during the 1930s and 1940s to transport newly-arrested prisoners. -
Autumn 2019
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Jankiel's Concert, by Maurycy Trębacz (1861-1941).
Towards the end of Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, the elderly Jankiel is persuaded to play The Third of May Polonaise on a dulcimer.
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Autumn 2020
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Alexander I of Russia, by Franz Krüger (1797-1857). -
New Year 2018
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The Boundary Post, an illustration from The Century magazine of May 1888.
The post marked the boundary between Europe and Asia on the road taken to Siberian exile by tsarist convicts.
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New Year 2019
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Russian Venus, by Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927).
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New Year 2020
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A Russian Ded Moroz (Father Frost) visits Altai, and is seen with his local counterpart and the, perhaps one and only, Snegurochka (Snow Maiden).
Picture credit: Altaydedmoroz CC BY-SA 4.0.
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New Year 2021
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Snegurochka (Snow Maiden) by Viktor M Vasnetsov (1848-1926)
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Spring/Summer 2018
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Солнечный день (Sunny Day), by Isaac Levitan (1860-1900).
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Spring/Summer 2019
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Engrossed in Reading, a propaganda postcard distributed by the Socialist Revolutionaries or the Bolsheviks in the last years of Tsarist Russia.
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Ice cutting on the Neva
Painted c. 1913 by Frédéric de Haenen (1853-1929) -
New Year 2023
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The Lilies of the Valley Egg, by Fabergé, 1898.
The portraits are of Tsar Nicholas II and his daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga (b. 1895) and Tatiana (b. 1897). -
Autumn 2023
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2nd March 2022, Artem Zherebyov fixes the Dove of Peace he made to a window in his family's apartment in Irpin, Ukraine.
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New Year 2024
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Illustration by Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942) for his 1899 version of Tsarevich Ivan, the Grey Wolf and the Firebird.
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Spring/Summer 2024
Cover picture:
'Peasants Making Hay, Russian Empire 1909'
A photograph taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky
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Autumn 2024
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It's melon time again!
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Spring 2005
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A view of Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kyiv, October 2004.
Picture credit: Nikolai Timchenko.
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