St. Sophia, Kiev: interior of dome with Christ Pantocrator and Angels St. Sophia, Kiev: interior of dome with Christ Pantocrator and Angels. 1037-61. Byzantine mosaic. Location: St. Sophia, Kiev, Ukraine Photo Credit: Andrea Jemolo/Scala / Art Resource, NY

Christ in Glory Russian (Novgorod?) Painter, late 15th century  Medium: Tempera on wood Dimensions: 42 1/8 x 30 7/8 in. (107 x 78.4 cm)

Photo · Cathedral of St. Basil Moscow, Russia

Details: Anonymous, 19th century St. Isaac Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, ca. 1880. Photograph. Photo Credit: Adoc-photos / Art Resource, NY

Façade of the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage St. Petersberg, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe and Yury Velten 1764-75

Etienne Maurice Falconet, (1716-1791) Monument to Peter the Great. 1782. Location: St. Petersburg, Russia Photo Credit: Bridgeman-Giraudon / Art Resource, NY

Portrait of Countess Samoilova Hillwood Mansion, Pavilion Oil Painting Karl Pavlovich Briullov ITALY 1832-1834 Oil on canvas H. 105 9/16 in., W. 78 3/4 in.

Imperial Peter the Great Easter Egg 1903 Fabergé firm   (Russian , 20th century) Mikhail Perkhin, Workmaster  (Russian , 1860 - 1903) Vasilii Zuiev, Painter of miniatures  (Russian , 1870 - unknown) Gold, platinum, diamonds, rubies, enamel, bronze, sapphire, watercolor on ivory, rock crystal 4.25 x 3.125 (diameter) in. 10.80 x 7.94 (diameter) cm.

Boris Zvorykin (Russian, Moscow 1872–1942 Paris) Illustration for "L'oiseau de Feu" [Tsarevich Ivan on the Horse with the Golden Mane of Tsar Afron] Boris Zvorykin  (Russian, Moscow 1872–1942 Paris) Date: ca. 1925 Medium: Gouache, metallic inks, and black ink, heightened with white, over graphite. Dimensions: Image: 10 7/8 x 8 3/16 in. (27.6 x 20.8 cm) Sheet: 13 3/4 x 10 9/16 in. (34.9 x 26.8 cm) Classification: Drawings

Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) © ARS, NY The Tsar's Palace. Stage set for "The Golden Cock", opera by Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov. Collage, gouache on paper (1914), 65 x 97 cm. Location: A. Bakhrushin, Museum of the History of Theatre, Moscow, Russia Photo Credit: Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

Léon Bakst (designer, Russian, 1866–1924),  Tutu and coronet worn by Anna Pavlova in Le Mort du Cygne (The Dying Swan), Russia, early 20th century. Net, goose feathers, and stone. Lent by the Bancroft Library.

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin (1855–1888) Artist: Ilia Efimovich Repin  (Russian, Chuguev 1844–1930 Kuokkala) Date: 1884 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 35 x 27 1/4 in. (88.9 x 69.2 cm)

I and the Village 1911 Marc Chagall (French, born Belarus. 1887–1985) Oil on canvas, 6' 3 5/8" x 59 5/8" (192.1 x 151.4 cm). Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Proun, 1924–25 El Lissitzky Russian, 1890-1941

Motherland is calling! (or “The Motherland Calls”) Irakli Toidze, 1941

Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building, Moscow, Dmitry Chechylin and Andrei Rostkovsky, 1947–52

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, 1982–83 Blindman’s Buff Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, 1982–83 Artist: Alexander Melamid (American, born Moscow, 1945) Artist: Vitaly Komar (American, born Moscow, 1943) Date: 1982–83 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: H. 72, W. 47 inches (182.9 x 119.4 cm.)

Untitled (Washington and Lenin) Leonid Lamm  (American, born in Russia 1928) Date: 1991 Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: H. 70, W. 70 inches (177.8 x 177.8 cm.)