Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life & Culture of the Russian Silver Age inside and bathrooms to garden terraces

and bathrooms to garden terraces and courtyards

” —Julian Fellowes

and brooches

Like the fictional Downton Abbey

from the palest lilac to the deepest violet

Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life & Culture of the Russian Silver Age inside and bathrooms to garden terracesThe twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance of the visual, literary, and performing arts, alongside the more exuberant pomp and circumstance of the court and high society. Here was a Silver Age, as it is known in Russia. Much of this new energy was indebted to the movement known as Symbolism, which fell on fertile soil in Mother Russia. Seeking to transcend the conventional barriers of bourgeois civility, the Russian Symbolists